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Highlight FOUR importance of listening.

Highlight FOUR importance of listening.

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sharon
1. For academic success: listening is an important means for learning at all academic levels.
Listening is the most used scholastic skill, “students listen to the equivalent of a book a
day, talk the equivalent of a book a week, read the equivalent of a book a month, and
write the equivalent of a book a year”. In fact, listening has been found to be more critical
to academic success than reading or academic aptitude.
2. To avoid disasters: the cost of poor listening can be catastrophic. Federal investigators
observe that poor listening is as much at fault as mechanical problems in airline crashes.
3. For employment success: people often indicate listening as crucial skills for leadership,
thereby linking listening with strength of character and judgment.
4. For personal happiness: it is requires a strong person to be a good listener, able to be
patient and confident enough to suspend judgement, and yet not sacrifice one’s capacity
to analyze and reply.
sharon kalunda answered the question on February 27, 2019 at 13:18

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