6 Types of Non-Listening

The six different types of non-listening is pseudolistening which is pretending to listen to somebody, monopolizing when you're dominant over the conversation and not listening to the person who's speaking, selective listening when you only listen to certain parts of a conversation and ignoring all else, defensive listening when you take all comments and think that you're being attacked, ambushing when you listen closely to find something to pick at so that you can attack the speaker with, and literal listening which is listening for literal parts but ignoring the personal communication that the speaker is trying to give. I believe that everyone has these in common in their communication. We aren't perfect, depending on the situation, we've all done this at some point in our life. It's inevitable that we avoid any of these 6 types of non-listening. I think the one that I use the most would be pseudolistening because I have a bad habit of pretending to listen when I'm extremely tired, lost in conversation, or the conversation is boring (I need to stop that). Getting more rest, or pausing somebody and asking them what they're talking about, and try to engage myself more in the conversation would be the ways of stopping, or not do it as much.