If you have difficulty listening to people, try not listening to them.

I expect you will find it much more difficult to not listen than listen.

It seems to me people have a difficulty listening because they have never made a conscious effort to not listen. If they made a conscious effort to not listen then they would understand it really isn't that difficult to listen to other people. It is far more difficult to totally tune other people out and not listen to anyone. If you have difficulty listening to people, try not listening to them.

I expect if people were forced to learn how to excel at not listening then they might even start arguing in favour of the benefits of listening. Perhaps, they would convince one another that it is far more work to not listen than it is to listen...so we might as well start listening.

Of course, there's a third alternative...

If you are the type of person who avoids extremes then you will not want to excel at either listening or not listening. If that's the type of person you are then there's good news for you. You can master the skill of half-listening. That takes little talent. That requires no effort.

Almost everyone can half-listen.

Almost everyone does.