Active or passive...Poll

[Florestan]

The terms are a little confusing. Harry says he is an active listener because he listens while he does his workout, and Florestan identifies himself as a passive listener, by which he means that he doesn't do anything else when he listens.

I assumed that "active" listening would be listening to music and doing nothing else, while "passive" would mean to have music playing while one does some other activity. I guess it depends on whether or not you consider concentrating on music an activity.

That said, I am an "active" listener, in that I devote my undivided attention to the music while I am listening. I think that one can't really dig deeply into a piece unless one listens in this way, but I speak only from my own experience.

You made a valid point. I defined myself as "passive" in Harry's frame of reference. In your's, I am "active".

[Harry]

You made a valid point. I defined myself as "passive" in Harry's frame of reference. In your's, I am "active".

See, that makes it so confusing, it really depends on your definition of Active/Passive.