Improve your listening skills

 

In order to beat boredom while listening:

 

With the left

 

Take notes.

 

Ask yourself.

 

“Is he following a basic outline?”

 

“How has he organized the lecture?”

 

“What points are being emphasized by him and why?”

 

“What could be the source of the data being used here?”

 

Shift the receiver of the telephone to the right ear for analytical thinking.

 

With the Right

 

Picture the listeners, their gestures, expressions, movements, smile, tone etc. Relate with what you already know. Look for connections.

 

Shift phone to your left ear (controlled by the right brain) for emphatic listening.

Improving your powers of concentration

 

There are times when while attending to a job, we get to hear several voices as a response to a stimulus - an internal (a thought or a remembered episode) or an external stimuli.

 

In case you want to concentrate on a left-brained job, it is better to tune down any negative and subjective right-brained thought after listening to it momentarily, unless it is intuitive in nature, giving you a new insight into some matter. In which case, jot down this intuitive insight and get on with whatever you are doing: listening, reading and so on.