Roger Skoff:
not knowing how to listen is a far more important problem than not being able to hear.
I would say for the benefit of some here, applies equally well to ideas as music.
Some of these guys, not you OP, but everyone can guess who I mean, they remind me of the guy who said, "Everyone learns differently. Some learn through the eyes by seeing. Some learn through the hands by doing. I learn through the mouth by talking."