Listening? Eh! I am Hearing

How often do we interchange the two words - Hear and Listen! Most of us really don't understand meaning of the two.

Hearing is like a train passing through your ears. Nothing remains, nothing provoked, nothing inspired and of no use.

Listening on the other hand inspires you to think, provokes you to give your 100% and remains in your brain.

How often have you felt a jerk while in a meeting? You would have been "hearing" and still enjoying your own world of thoughts. Awaken by a question asked twice, and you will be a man who doesn’t even know where you are.

Most of the communication gaps arise because of “hearing”. And you know well that Communication Gap is the root cause of verb –failed, lost.

We want to be listened. We seldom are listeners and most of the time, pretend to listen. Pretension is good in short term, but again in long-term it brings back the verb which we hate to see in our life.

For a change, why don’t we start listening? On your marks, Get Set….