Clear & Cloudy

Today at school for skills for adolescents we learnt about the art of listening and if comment made to us are clear or cloudy.

Cloudy Example:
"You are nice"
This is cloudy because it doesn't tell the person why they are nice.

Clear Example:
"You are nice because you always speak kindly to me"
This is clear because the person said why they are nice and the person listening got the message why they are nice.

So after we learnt about it our teacher instructed us to draw our hand on a piece of card and write our name on it.After we were told to go around to each others hands and write something kind about them,and most students in my class thought no one would bother writing something and when they saw people did their self confidence grew more to what people said about them.