Listening skills

Hi readers today I am writing about listening skills. Listening is the ability to accurately receive and interpret messages in communication. Without the ability to listen messages are easily misunderstood. If you can't master communication skill, you should aim to master listening skill. Listening is very important in life, and can help you to become successful. There are many positive outcomes of listening, you can have friends, it improves your self-esteem and confidence, as well as higher grades at school. Listening is not the same as hearing. When you listen you have to actually pay attention, where as hearing is just the sound. Attention is the most important thing we as people can give each other. There are ten principals of listening, 1) stop talking, 2) prepare yourself to listen, 3) put the speaker at ease, 4) remove distractions, 5) empathize, 6) be patient, 7)try to be impractical, 7)listen to the tone, 8)listen for ideas and not just words, 9)look for non verbal communication.
                                                              That's all I have for today, thank you for reading, bye.

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