There are two cases for you guys as reference on the way to be brilliant scholars. One is that one of your peers told me he didn’t hear what I had said: To write down the Chinese counterpart while given a vocabulary quiz. The other is that a young lady in the class was not engaged in classroom activity; instead, she was reading her novel. Perhaps, they are partly right. 

However, we may view their attitude from different aspects. A couple years ago, an article talked about a story, in which a young engineer lost his chance being promoted for his failure of listening attentively while his peers were bringing forth suggestions to their boss. The young engineer insisted he not hear his suggestion had been submitted. Even though the young engineer claimed that he did hear none about his idea put forth by others, he still ate bitter fruit for his distraction from listening to others. The case is very similar to that happening to your classmate. The rule I announced before the quiz went out of his mind. So, he had to shoulder the consequence. But I hope such an experience could teach him a lesson, one he could reward much more from. 

If you don’t like it, could you opt to forget about it? Well, think about our life. How many do we dislike to do? Then, we can list a plethora than we could that we are not actually fond of. In reality, those you don’t prefer, in many cases, build you a better person. So, leap out of the circle that limits your development. Psychologists coin a term for the circle, ‘comfort zone,’ which refers to what we are accustomed to conducting, or a situation we tend to remain in. Researchers indeed have found people who could really achieve their goals are those who tend to stay away from comfort zone. 

Good listening habits and the removal of your unwillingness to do what you don’t want are not easy, but once done will in turn lead you ahead of others. So, kids, try to change yourself while you may, because you are young.