16 percent to reading,

　　30 percent to speaking and 45 percent to listening.

　　We spend more time listening than we do in any other form of communication. However,

　　most of us don't pay much attention to it.

　　Research indicates that normal listening results in a 50璸ercent retention immediately after a 10璵inute presentation, ,

　　which then declines to only about 25 percent after 48 hours. Extension Specialist Bob Linda says the average person will hear 7. 5 minutes of a one­hour presentation and will forget half of that.

　　One reason we listen so poorly is that our minds work much faster than our mouths. The average person thinks 600?00 words per minutme but speaks at a rate of about 125. His listeners' minds are occupied with hearing only one­fifth of the time he is speaking. The listeners may consider and react to what is being said during the other four­fifths of the time,

　　or become absorbed in coming up with his response,

　　or think other thoughts and miss the rest of what is being said.

　　If we really listen,

　　we may be forced to accept a different perspective of reality. Most of us have a firmly developed view of reality that we do not want to change. Carl Rogers,

　　the psychiatrist,

　　points out that if you are really willing to listen to another,

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