86. LISTEN AND LEARN

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11/4/2019

No matter where we go, there are too many wide-open spaces… surrounded by teeth.

Listening, not thinking about what we will say, is a lost art. Talking, on the other hand, too commonly reveals a mind that has not had sufficient input. Abraham Lincoln once remarked, "He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met." Socrates, wise to the waste of time the mouth causes in the learning process, would make students wait three years before they could even ask a question.

There is no learning when the mouth is engaged. "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Cherokee proverb). Learning by listening provides the necessary fuel for good colloquy. Unfortunately, people are like barrels in that the less they have in them the more noise they make. A mind enriched with experience, listening, and learning has some hope of creating words of interest to others. Even then we must be ever mindful of how dangerous a little bit of knowledge is—and what we have is always a little bit compared to what there is. Otherwise we risk being as edifying to our listener as a leaky faucet dripping into a tin dishpan at the head of the bed when they want to go to sleep.

Talking strokes ego and satisfies insecurities. We come back to that basic human problem of thinking the universe circles around us. We may think the world is our vast lecture platform to affirm our importance, but we are usually the only audience that is impressed.

11/4/2019
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1. We Can Agree
2. Possibility Thinking
3. The Solver Principles
4. Our Owner's Manual
5. We Live in A Unique Time
6. Being Health Smart
7. The Illusion of Youth Health
8. The Good Old Days
9. Timing Life
10. Exercise
11. Hormones and Steroids - A Two-Edged Sword
12. The Female Hormone Problem
13. Growing Older
14. Squaring the Curve
15. Healthy Dos and Don'ts
16. The Medical Profession
17. The Greatest Threat to Health
18. Don't Surrender to Medical Care
19. But We Live Longer Today
20. Dollars Don't Make Health
21. Disease Does Not Strike Us
22. Germs Don't Cause Disease We Do
23. From Where Does Healing Come
24. The Best Food
25. Food Ethics
26. Healthy Weight
27. Healthy Eating Ideas
28. First Things First
29. Hopelessness
30. Depression
31. Memories
32. Addiction
33. Blaming the Parents
34. Surviving Tragedy
35. Touch
36. Music as Healer
37. Humor
38. Pets as Life Savers
39. Pet Keeping - A Serious Responsibility
40. The Myth of 100 Complete Pet Foods
41. Feeding Pets as Nature Intended
42. Industry vs. Earth
43. Population
44. Modernity's Deception
45. Animal Rights
46. Biophilia
47. Respect for All Life
48. Doing Good With Business
49. The Global Economy
50. The Power of Money
51. Financial Affairs
52. Work as Friend
53. Government
54. The End of Civilization
55. Freedom Is Not Equality
56. Sex
57. Being in Love
58. Marriage - The Union of Opposites
59. Divorce
60. The Family Nest
61. Having Babies
62. Children
63. The Empty Nest
64. Experience
65. Education
66. Life Is Uncertain
67. Things Mound Up
68. Murphy's Law
69. Life's Predictability
70. Finding Home
71. Learn From History
72. Shaping the Future
73. The Other Line Always Moves Faster
74. Little Things Add Up
75. Growing Up
76. Alone
77. Hope
78. Paying the Success Price
79. Change A Wonderful Thing
80. Being the Best You Can Be
81. Do Something, Something Happens
82. Change the World
83. Growing Good People
84. Words
85. Genius
86. Listen and Learn
87. Mind Over Matter
88. Looking Good
89. Protecting Yourself
90. Self Sufficiency
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94. The Long View
95. Being Real
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