looks good so we are going to go ahead and start
um...
one quick i guess word of introduction to the workshop today this is
technically the
first of two parts
uh... next week we're going to talk about taking better lecture notes
it's really hard when the teacher is talking
full-speed
and that's pretty much how they all talk to know what to write and how
to write it and just gets very confusing
one of the reasons that this is part one is because
if you're not mentally in the room
listening carefully
you can't take good notes and so many people struggle with their concentration
with their uh... listening skills
so the idea is
i want to try to get that stronger today and then if you're able to be back next
week i'll teach you how to actually physically write notes in a way that
might be different than what you do now
and might be better might be more helpful okay so that's kind of the idea
here's what i want to say to begin with
whenever students see the title of this workshop improving your listening skills
i get some really interesting
responses from people
people look at me and they say
you're gonna teach us how to listen
and i said well actually yes
and people say well i already know how to do that been doing that all my life
and hearing and listening
are not the same thing at all
and most people as i said are really not good at it and we're gonna talk about
that to start with
but here's my little uh... quick introduction to this whole thing and
that is
um... i talk to students really often and i don't know if this is gonna sound familiar to
you but i talk to students and i go up to one and i say
do you ever have a hard time concentrating when somebody's talking to
you
and here's their answer...wh..what
yeah okay good you come to me with me to the workshop
uh... people's ability to concentrate is kinda scary and so what we're gonna do
is we're gonna start with problems
we don't want to think about those too much but
there are a lot of reasons why people have a hard time concentrating
we're gonna talk about three of them really fast and then we're going to
focus on solutions
it's always nice when there are twice as many solutions as problems too bad life
isn't quite like that but anyway that's sort of encouraging so um... out of all
the reasons you might think of why a person has trouble concentrating
some of those are going to be addressed over here but i wanna show you three of
them
and what i'd like to have you do while i'm explaining these
is to figure out something for yourself i'm not going to actually ask you i just
want you to think about it
which one of these three
are you guilty of the most often in other words it's your personal weakness
and one thing i know for sure this might surprise you
i know even though i don't know anybody in here really
i know that all of you suffer from all three of these
and how can i know that's it's 'cause you're a human being
you'll understand as i go through 'em ok so the first one
which is a major problem for a lot of people
is what's usually referred to as
pseudo listening
okay and what does