Develop Listening Skills While Controlling Distractions
If you want to develop your communication skills, you need to be able to listen to others. If you want to listen to others, you need to stop talking from time to time.
As Business Blog Inc. points out, interrupting others is the fastest way to sabotage your own conversations. If the person you are talking to shares some useful interesting information, you are denying yourself access to something useful. By forcing yourself to relax during breaks, you get time to think about what they are saying instead of planning what you are about to say next:
When we interrupt learning, we not only interrupt the learning process, but we risk not learning anything at all. Think about it: if you’re already thinking about what you’re about to say while the other person is talking, you are certainly not listening to him (or learning from him).
Of course, when we interrupt a conversation, what worries us most is that if we don’t say it now , we will forget, or it won’t be said. However, it is rarely worth indulging this concern. If you are interested in conversation at all, you will probably soon find something else to say. Most of the things we say is not so critical, and all the more important that this connection we are building, having a conversation. If something is really important enough to warrant an interruption, it is likely to be welcome.