Is listening important???

India
September 24, 2008 7:40am CST
Are you a listener? What do you think if a person is angry on you, and you are responding after listening all, makes a difference rather than you too arguing with them? In ur communication are you a Listener or a Speaker? Is listening equally important in communication?
2 responses
@rocketj1 (6955)
• United States
24 Sep 08
What? Did you say something Sorry, couldn't resist:)
• India
25 Sep 08
Hi friend..how r u? have u heard this?
@rocketj1 (6955)
• United States
25 Sep 08
Oh, yes I think I did this time!
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
18 Oct 08
I think I am a a good listener. My friends, my dear and near ones and others share their problems with me and I give them an oppotunity to vent out, if I listen to them attentively. I do not mind if the other person is angry. I concentrae all my energies, while listening to someone's problem or version and keep asking some relevant questions in between, so as to assure him that I am very much attentive to him. If I give them some advice, they consider it very patiently and try to act upon it. Sometimes, it feels bad, when someone tells you his problem and start giving the solutions himself, then I wonder, I was really a fool, who spared my valuable time to listen to him.