Selective Listening, Selective Reading & Selective Watching

If you haven't heard about "selective listening", sorry for having a miserable life to-date. This is one of the best skills to have to be able to live a life which you choose to live. You are not driven by others, rather you decide, how you want to define "your" life.

Selective listening is basically the ability to decide what you want to listen to. You may "hear" a lot but what you choose to "listen" to is totally in your control. Yes there is a difference between hearing & listening. Sometimes, I just put on my headphones or earphones to indicate, I am not in the listening mode. I may or may not be listening to something. Its just to indicate to people around me that I am not in the listening mode right now. It works like a charm and I think its only polite to indicate your wall & space, instead of somebody just assuming that you are going to listen to them just because they start speaking.

I extend this concept to "selective reading" also. There is enough material out there to read however what you should be able to choose what you want to read. Your interests, your influences, should be driven by what you choose to read rather than what comes in front of your eyes to read. To be able to decide what to read and what not to read, that's "selective reading".

Extending that to "selective watching" is what we should do with television & streaming websites like YouTube. All this intake of information in this age can pretty much mess up your mind if you try to just take what comes to you, in your face. Instead, use this knowledge about selective listening, reading & watching to decide what you want to watch which leads to controlling how you want to live your life.

The various power sources of the world, political, religious, corporate, know how easily our minds tune into information. Hence, they are using these tools, social media, television, radio, etc to be able to control & condition how we think. Influence it in a way that we end up believing them, buying their product, following them or something of the sort.

Its about time, we took back what was ours in the first place, our mind. Think about it, how many times your action was influenced just by reading, watching or listening to somebody. Why should anybody have control of my mind other than myself?