d in our personal lives, is to identify the poor listening habits we’ve developed over a life—time and replace them with effective ,productive habits.Р4. List some poor listening habitsР(1) Being upied with talking, not listening. (2) Calling the subject uninteresting.Р(3) Letting bias or prejudice distort the message you hear.Р(4) Oversimplifying answers or explanations.Р(5) Yielding to external distractions. (6) Yielding to internal distractions.Р(7) Avoiding difficult or demanding material. (8) Rationalizing poor listening.Р(9) Criticizing the speaker’s delivery. (10) Jumping to conclusions.Р(11) Getting over—stimulated. (12) Assigning the wrong meaning to words.Р(13) Listening only for the facts. (14)Trying to make an outline of everything we hear. (15) Faking attention to the speaker.