Listen, don’t talk

Silence is sometimes the best answer.

This is perhaps the hardest advice for humans to follow (besides “floss every night”).

We are each the center of our own universe, and we are all born with a certainty that others need or want to hear what we want to say to them.

But we already know what we know; use your ears to learn what someone else knows or wants to tell you.

Sometimes what people need is to be listened to. That’s all. Not talked to. Just listened to.

And oh the things you can learn about others and from others just by listening carefully to them. You get to learn what they learned while you were learning something else. This is like turbo boosting your life and human education.

So just be there and listen. You will learn something. And floss too.