Varianta 15 Write an opinion: listen/speak in communication

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Varianta 015
True communication involves the ability to listen as well as speak. Write an opinion essay to enlarge upon your position. (250 words/25 lines)

Basic communications skills include the ability to listen, to speak capably in one or many languages, or to be able to express oneself through movement or art. Musicians, dancers and artists have found outlets for communications beyond mere language. Great poets utilize the language capably to invoke words, images and symbols to communicate ideas, stories or emotions. Great storytellers weave a tale that embodies the myths of a culture throughout time. These are all forms of communications. The importance of listening cannot be understated. Most people suffer from listening disabilities or some cognitive dysfunction that makes communications difficult, if not impossible. Cognitive dysfunction is the inability to take in new information that might challenge deeply held beliefs or rock your self-identity. New information is blocked with a typical excuse, and one quickly escapes into denial or a refusal to communicate as a defensive reaction. Start noticing when this happens with you. For communications or sharing to happen at all, there must be a two-way street of information and energy. Listening is one pole. Speaking is often the other. Both are necessary to complete the circuit. Like electricity, no current can flow without both poles being wired up. The same is true of communications. Practice good listening. Cognitive dissonance can be healed. We can learn four to five times faster than we speak. This means that while someone is talking with us, our mind can fill with other thoughts and we can lose our concentration. In conclusion, true communication involves the ability to listen as well as to speak.