Listening Skill: Active or Passive?

Listening can be defined has paying attention to a sound. Listening is far different from hearing. Your listening skills depend on how you listen. 

There are two ways of listening, the active and passive.

Active: Active listening is a communication technique used in counseling, training and conflict resolution, which requires the listener to feed back what they hear to the speaker frequently. This is to show that you aren't distracted.

Passive: Passive Listening is listening without reacting allowing someone to speak, without interrupting not doing anything else at the same time.

LISTENING I EXHIBIT:

I can't really say which listening ability I exhibit. The listening skill I exhibit is determined by my mood, season/time and the person i am interacting with.

Mood: When I am happy I reply actively but when I am sad I reply passively. Most time I do communicate with people when I am happy so it's hard to find me sad. Therefore, I feel i usually exhibit active listening.

Season/Time: Imagine someone calling you in the middle of the night like 3am. It's of great certainty that you won't reply the person with great passion. The time i listen to  people contributes to how I listen.

Person: The individual i am listening to is also a factor in determining the listening skill i exhibit. Level of relationship comes into place and determines my listening skill

CONCLUSIVELY: I feel I am an active listener.