Critical Listening Robert Lewis Comm 160 9/3 Blog post

From the last two readings I read about critics listening and how many people take the smallest thing like that for granted. In the last reading it stated, " Modes of listening  help us start to define and understand what it means to take on the stance of compassionate critical listeners by drawing our attention to the roles context, individual experience, and cultural expectations play in the process and performance of listening." This struck me because just hearing a person out respecting his or her voice can define a relationship. Critical listening plays a huge role in long lasting bonds. Communicating and listening are two things that people see as the most basic things two do, but don't know the true meanings of it. Their are a lot of attributes to being a critical listener. Little did I know before reading the passage is their is a distinct difference from listening and hearing. The text opened my mind to broader ideas of the subject "Critical Listening."