LESSON 30
278. Recall Chart
Difficult, envelope, progress, success, satisfy- satisfactory, state.
Request, wish, under, particular, probable, regular.
Speak, idea, subject, regard, newspaper, opinion.
Responsible, worth, public, publish-publication, ordinary, experience.
Usual, world, recognize, recognize, ordinarily, regarded.
We hope, your order, more than, as soon as, to do, let us.
To us, you ordered, of course, as soon as possible, I hope, let me.
Explain, explanation; flexible, inflexible; critical, critically.
Doubtful, undoubtedly, direct, direction, becoming, influential.
Frank, Frankly, endeavor, endeavored, create, creation.
Meant, mental, king, kingdom, contained, containers.
Compliment, complimentary, brother, brothers, review, reviewed.
Yard, yield, unite, united, resist, resistant
Quiet, quietly, purchase, purchased, print, printed.
Ahead, aware, divide, division, soil, soiled.
280. The value of exercise.
Nobody, of course, can promise you that regular physical exercise will guarantee you a longer life. But exercise can help put the odds in your favor.
Exercise is one satisfying thing you can do to get your body in good physical condition. You should check with your doctor first, and then decide on the type of exercise you prefer. You will be able to choose from swimming, tennis, jogging, handball, and many other enjoyable and healthful pastimes.
Exercise is food for your weight, your lungs, and the 600 muscles in your body. including the most important one - your heart.
Physical Fitness council
281. Good Listening
Many people regard hearing and listening as the same thing, but there is a great difference between the two. Hearing is dependent only upon the ears, but listening utilizes the mind and often the eyes. Your ears permit you to hear sound; the mind enables you to decipher those sounds into words and then changes them into thoughts and ideas.
You may not have considered the eyes to be an important tool in listening. Yet what you see when a person is speaking could sometimes be of as much importance as what you hear. A speaker’s facial expression may completely change the meaning of the words he is saying.
Listening in Business. Efficient listening habits play a part in a person’s success in all areas of life but particularly in business. So important are habits of listening that a number of the world’s most progressive organizations find it worth their while to provide short listening courses for many of their managers.
Effective listening is valuable to managers. Successful and experienced managers don’t just give orders. They do a lot of listening. They listen to their people to find out what they think about the company and about their jobs so that they can establish good relations. They listen to staff members often are glad to express their ideas on many subjects when they have a good audience.
Good listening is important to clerical people too. They must rely on good listening inorder to carry out their ordinary assignments. The telephone operator certainly must listen carefully in order to handle requests of hundreds of public callers every day. The sales representative must listen carefully to deal responsibly with the wishes of his clients. All people who provide services of any kind to the general public are dependent to some extent on their duties satisfactorily.
We all listen a lot. Listening probably demands more of the time a person is awake than any other activity. One recently published opinion survey states that approximately one third of a person’s waking hours are spent in listening in school, in the home, or at work.
People listen about three times as much as they read such publications as newspapers, magazines, books, circulars, and other advertising matter. The advantages of good listening are acknowledged to be great. They include increased learning, increased job opportunities and promotions, and better understanding and appreciation of the spoken word.
On the other hand, poor listening habits may bring difficulties and trouble in life. Often school dropouts fail in their studies because they do not know how to listen.
Listening on the job. The advantages of good listening habits are quite tangible when you hold a job. They often mean a bigger paycheck! Beginners must listen to instructions and directions from managers and others in the organization. They must listen to suggestions and frank criticism in order to do their job efficiently. To get ahead in a job, they must know what is going on in their department and in the company, and they can learn what is going on best by listening intelligently.
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