Why listening is important

We talk about listening, but I feel that most of uses really don’t do it. I believe that we hear, not listen. For example in a class when the professor is giving a lecture we tend to sometimes zone in and out. But to become more effective as students and people we truly do need to enhance are listening skills. In the book it said that 60 percent of business errors are due to not listening. If we focused are attentions on what the boss tells us instead of what we are going to do tonight we could get work done. But it is also in are personal life as well as professional life. When we come in from a long day and we just want to relax and are significant other comes in and starts to tell us about their day we sometimes just zone out or give one word answers. When we do this is gives our significant other the impression that we don’t care and cause a fight. But we do.