This exercise is designed to illustrate how challenging it is to listen. Although listening is an activity that people use more than speaking, reading, or writing, it is typically not afforded the same level of instruction and focus (Adler & Rodman, 2011). In addition, humans are subject to such continual and diverse stimuli; most do not even realize that they are poor listeners and that listening is hard. Students in particular spend the majority of their time in situations where listening is the primary activity they are engaging in and is key to their success, yet talk is the skill often more privileged than listening and explicitly taught.In this activity, students will take part in a class exercise that contrasts listening for information and listening for enjoyment, yet they are not aware of it until the activity has been completed and class discussion and debriefing has taken place. They will be able to recognize their behaviors and emotions when faced with paying attention to unfamiliar material.