Find a practice partner who is an office worker or someone in your business, educational network, family or friend (indicate who it is in your paper). Take turns telling events from your lives. As you listen to your practice partner, sum up your practice partner’s overall experience (explain the background to the dialogue and their experience and feelings conveyed) in a 100-150-word writing. At the end of your writing, indicate why you believe your interpretation of their message required and utilized good listening skills. Support your answer from the text and peer reviewed sources.

My friend and I talked about the time when we were at a school extremely far from our home and we had to take several buses to get to school. Both he and I missed the bus schedule that took us back home constantly, which resulted in several adventures where both he and I spent the night wandering around until we found a way to get home or find shelter to spend in the evening.

The conversation was very nostalgic and gave me a feeling of accomplishment. It also gave me a sense of how fast time passes and that very conflicting situations from the past, turn into funny and fun memories today. I believe my friend felt the same things.

I believe that we passed on to each other a message of overcoming. That's because when I heard my friend's reports, I didn't feel that he was sad or embarrassed by these past issues, but that he was proud of how these things built the person he is today. I wouldn’t realize it if I weren’t a good listener.