My_Wife_Says_I_Never_Listen,_Or_Something_Like_That…

My Wife Says I Never Listen, Or Something Like That… My communications failings are in listening while attempting to solve problems. I listen well for the basic layout of an issue or problem, and then tune out whomever I am talking to. This habit comes from a combination of inability to change my thought processes in mid thought as well as an intolerance of people who cannot get to the point in a conversation. I listen well to the basic outlining of an issue. I will decide my course of action and then proceed to act on it. At this point, I have to watch that I don’t tune out any other participants in explaining my solution. I have missed valuable information this way on more than one occasion. Working in Technical Support, this is something that can be a serious problem. I grew up with Attention Deficit Disorder, a disease that gently reduces a person’s ability to tune out distractions. In compensation, I learned a Herculean level of focus. While this helps me in many things, it is a roadblock in personal communications. Imagine telling someone a thirty-minute detailed story of something or other, and have him or her look up and ask, “Were you saying while, something, problem, tune, situation, point, people, out, need, don’t, am, yourself, time, throw, thought, things, tech, support, someone, person’s, open, one, now, listen, know, just, issue, intolerance, input, information, difficulty, communications, change, cannot, bat