Reasons for poor listening

• Competition for attention: It results when you are overly busy.
• Failure to concentrate: Lack of concentration is the result of existing environment condition and sometimes speaker’s speed, which is greater than listener.
• Emotions and feelings : Angry, shouting, grieved, and overly happy persons are poor listeners.
• Evaluation : You stop listening when you become busy in evaluating the situation.
• Sluggishness: When you let your mind wonder and when you just do not want to concentrate you are unable to listen.
• Distraction: When your attention distracts from the speaker to some other object you cannot listen.
• Language: When the speaker does not speak the language of the listener, the latter is unable to understand.
• Exhaustion and drowsiness: When you are done up or feel like sleeping you cannot listen.
• Topic: When the topic is uninteresting you become poor listener.
• Rigid: When you rigid and says we do not need for this .