While listening skills are important, i think talking skills are also important. Maybe you could also write about how to talk?
On your example you were busy working on the computer or "wrangling" a child and other person started chatting to you when you were clearly busy. Like my mom somehow always manages to start a chat with me when i am very focused on something else and it yanks me out of focus and thus i need to spend additional time to reach that point again (where she agains initiates a chat). Thus i might be rewatching the same scene of a movie for the fifth time.
Some people don't care if you don't have the right level of knowledge and then get hurt/annoyed when you can't follow or understand them. Like one is talking about phd level physics to a person who barely passed high school physics.
Some people chatter non-stop or repeat the same thing multiple times in the same conversation or over a short period of time. Thus my brain tends to zone out as it feels like they are talking at me instead of with me.
Some people talk so much and jump from subject to subject in their monologue that i can't even process it as there is an information overload.
Some people tell long winded stories so that you can no longer follow it after a while because they haven't told the main point which would help to follow the thought.
While listening skills are important, i think talking skills are also important. Maybe you could also write about how to talk?
On your example you were busy working on the computer or "wrangling" a child and other person started chatting to you when you were clearly busy. Like my mom somehow always manages to start a chat with me when i am very focused on something else and it yanks me out of focus and thus i need to spend additional time to reach that point again (where she agains initiates a chat). Thus i might be rewatching the same scene of a movie for the fifth time.
Some people don't care if you don't have the right level of knowledge and then get hurt/annoyed when you can't follow or understand them. Like one is talking about phd level physics to a person who barely passed high school physics.
Some people chatter non-stop or repeat the same thing multiple times in the same conversation or over a short period of time. Thus my brain tends to zone out as it feels like they are talking at me instead of with me.
Some people talk so much and jump from subject to subject in their monologue that i can't even process it as there is an information overload.
Some people tell long winded stories so that you can no longer follow it after a while because they haven't told the main point which would help to follow the thought.