In daily conversations, there are always people whom have shorter
listening span than others. It gets annoying when one has to keep repeating the
same sentence over and over again to the person one is talking to. To give an example
of that, I will be using a scenario between two people named them Charles (age
30) and Alphonse (age 20).
The scenario involves the two friends, Alphonse complaining
to his oversea friend Charles about his tight time schedule for the new
semester. One day, Alphonse comes home after learning of his new schedule for
the new semester and called Charles in hope Charles will comfort Alphonse. Alphonse
started complaining by first stating that his local friends from other campus
are having a lighter schedule as compared to him. Charles replied that it is
normal for the schedules to differ from one campus to another. However, Alphonse
replied that his schedules should not have differed that much as they are still
locally located. Charles said that it might not always hold true as different
campus may thrive for different schedules so as to push their students to a
higher height. Alphonse felt irritated at this instance and began having a bias
mind set which led to an argument.
The above example shows that the difference in culture will
lead to the lack of understanding between both parties. Charles understands
where Alphonse is coming from however; he did not attempt to give words of
encouragement, like stating that the tight schedule was so that the students
could be pushed to higher heights and Alphonse should be rather glad about it.
Instead, Charles wanted to brush the topic off by stating that different campus
has different schedules.
The lesson we can learn from this would be to listen to the
other party and to try to understand where they are coming from. The listener
should try to understand why the speaker has spoken in the way the speaker did
and
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