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QUIZ: How well do you REALLY listen?

Instructions: Try this interactive quiz to find out what kind of listener you really are. Do you let things go in one ear and right out the other? Or, do you desperately hang onto every word. Read the following statements and indicate how you relate to them.

   


1


People who exaggerate, frustrate me.


2


I dislike people who cannot speak their mind.


3


I have a difficult time communicating with people who are rude.


4


I enjoy telling stories to grab other people's attention.


5


I will bring other people into a conversation if I feel they are being left out.


6


It's hard for me to stay focused when someone speaks in a monotone voice.


7


If the person I'm speaking with seems uninterested in me, I tune them out.


8


I like listening to an upbeat person.


9


If someone is indecisive, I stop listening.


10


I am influenced more by the rational than the emotional.


11


I get frustrated when other people do not present their ideas in an orderly manner.


12


I become emotionally involved with the characters in books or the people in films.


13


I do not put much weight on other people's opinion.


14


Even when I am not interested, I give my full attention to the speaker.


15


I pretend to follow the conversation even though I am not interested in it.


16


I make time to listen to others, even when I am busy.


17


I often question the facts and premises of a speaker's point of view.


18


I would rather attend a musical event than a lecture.


19


I find it difficult to continue listening to another when they are proving me wrong on a point.


20


I like to take notes while someone is speaking.


21


I am impatient when people waste my time during a conversation.


22


If the speaker is boring, I daydream.


23


I place greater emphasis on the emotions of the speaker than on what he or she is saying.


24


When people get off track, I bring them back to the topic.


25


I make eye contact with the person that is speaking.



 
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