Seek first to understand
                                        then to be understood

We learn alot in school how to read and write and learning how to speak with proper language. But have you actually been listening to everything you are told about? Or are you just wandering in space in your own mind and ignoring what the teacher says?
You should always use your ears before your mouth or hands. If you don't quite understand what to do then you can mess alot up. For example if you are asked to do a job that envolves cutting if you cut in the wrong spot you can't undo a cut.

This habit is mainly about listening to the person telling what is happening or going on. Because you so often listen autobiographically, you tend to respond in these four ways:

Evaluating:	You judge and then either agree or disagree.
Probing:	You ask questions from your own frame of reference.
Advising:	You give counsel, advice, and solutions to problems.
Interpreting:	You analyze others' motives and behaviors based on your own experiences.

This isnt all bad if you are asked specifically to answer from your point of veiw then this is not problem but if you are not then then that isnt the greatest solution.

 Just think what if you were deaf or were born without any ears, then what? We of course take our hearing and seeing for granted. We should listen with what God has given us and be grateful that the Lord has so many beatiful sounds on earth that only some of us can hear.