The most interesting concept that I found this week was the idea of external and internal noise. Think about this: you’ve got a midterm coming up, and you sit down, all prepared to study hard. Then your roommate comes home with this “crazy story that you just have to hear!” So you spend 10 minutes listening to her spout off her story, then you decide to get back to studying. But! your window is open and you hear music coming from someone’s radio. So you shut your window, and hope to get to it. But then! you realize that the water dripping from the sink is driving you crazy, so you go an tighten the handle to make it stop. You can finally start now that all the external distractions are done, right?
Wrong. You sit down, look at the clock, and realize you have 14 hours and 37 minutes until your exam. Then the internal noise begins: will I do alright?; I wonder what the questions are going to be; what percent of my grade is this?; ugh I can’t wait for spring break; I’m hungry;, so on and so forth.
Internal and external noise affects us in pretty much everything that we do. It’s learning to overcome these obstacles so that you can communicate better in any situation that we as a society should probably spend more time on.
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Hi Neesaw 27, I really enjoyed reading your blog post. External noise and internal noise is prevalent even when it comes to being in a classroom. A couple of weeks ago, I took a class where the speaker had static noise. It was hard to listen to the professor’s lecture because of the annoying sounds. As the session went on, there was a helicopter noise which made it hard to hear what the professor was saying. Later on, I would hear two classmates talking to one another while the professor was giving her lecture. I don’t mind it if they would whisper, but they were talking in a clearly audible tone which bothered me. As the class was ten minutes from ending, I would think about the weekend soon approaching, and the fun plans.
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