If you are interested and/or involved in communicating with others and want to have the greatest impact you can, you might want to take on board some of what I think are some interesting thoughts about communication. (Phew, that was a very long sentence!)
The average person spends approximately 70% of their time communicating with others
How we spend our time
16% of it is spent reading
9% writing in some manner
Talking occupies 30% of our time
Listening approximately 45% of our time
Attention!
we speak at 150 words per minute
we can process 600 words per minute
The average student has an attention span of about 10 seconds
Adults only slightly better at 17 seconds
Impact
We listen with our eyes
We receive 55% of the message from body language
38% from the voice
approximately 7% from the words
Laws of forgetting
25% is forgotten immediately
75% is forgotten within 2 months
of the 25% remembered – only 60% will be accurate
Laws of remembering
we remember best what we hear first and last
we remember what we hear most frequently
impact helps remembering
unless the “right hemisphere of the brain is engaged there is little chance of information going into long term memory
we remember that which we have the greatest application for
