Are you a good listeners?

I think that I'm a good listener. I can listen to peoples stories without interrupting them for a long time. Many people need to share something and sometimes it's interesting to listen. But I notice that more and more people are focused on their own stories and don't want to listen to others.

I'd like to think that I am a good listener but I have to admit, I am a bit absent minded. So sometimes, especially when I'm in a lesson, I tend to think about various things concerning me and then I start to go off in a tangeant I don't pay any attention about what's happeing around me. So many times during lessons, I have to ask my friend "So... What do we have to do?". This has also happened a few times when I was supposed to be listening to my friend but I concentrate a lot more with them. Hopefully I will get better at focusing more =D

hi insulin yes I am now thanks to my son who really startled me one'day. I was balancing my check book when he started to tell me something and I was not really completely listening as I was thinking about addition and subtraction instead. He grabbed my checkbook and said,you never listen . put that down and listen to me as this is important. So I did just that and recognized that I really was not a good listener at all. So I began a big change and stopped whatever I was doing to really listen. it has made a big difference in how well I get along with other people.

sometimes i am. that's if i am interested into something, but if not i am not.

I think I am. Many of my friends told me their stories. But with me being a good listener, I caught something between the lines that made me feeling bad about a person: like: Oh, how snob he is, oh a kid, oh selfish, oh uneducated, oh she thinks she is good?, etc.

Basically, i am a good listener, because i like to learn from everyone's experience. But when im doing something so that i have to concentrate, i turn 180 degrees into a fully deaf person who even cant hear a single word to a person who talks to me. :(

When I am meeting new people, i have a hark time keeping up with the conversation. My mind is racing, trying to think of something to say. I try to listen, but the over thinking gets in the way at times.