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As usual, I started my day with emails, because, surprise, I wasn’t aching to tell you something… I had nothing to say.
That doesn’t stop millions, maybe billions of people from talking nonsense, I observe, and in fact I myself was labeled chatty Cathy, or chatterbox in English, or Dumás Dusi in Hungarian.
I have a neighbor whose daughter, around two, is like that. Cute… but must be incredibly tiresome for the parents.
I also have students who, when allowed, talk INCESSANTLY.
Surprisingly or not, the more you talk the less what you say matters, the less anyone will believe you, the less worthwhile it is to listen to you.
Now, apart from the systemic judgment, whether it is good or bad, useful or useless, or even if what comes out is valuable or worthless… what else can we say about talking?
I watched a little commercial this morning… Continue reading “Can you listen while you talk? Do you listen while you talk?”