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Poor Listening Habits to Avoid

• Pseudolistening is an imitation of actual listening.
• Stage hogging occurs when people are interested only in expressing their ideas and don’t care about what anyone else has to say.
• Selective listening is when people respond only to the parts of a message that interest them, rejecting everything else.
• Filling in gaps is manufacturing information that wasn’t part of an original story or message.
• Insulated listening occurs when listeners avoid what they would rather not deal with.
• Defensive listening is taking innocent comments as personal attacks.
• Ambushing is listening carefully only to collect information for use in attacking the speaker.

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