May 16 2019

Listen More, Speak Less

We have two ears and one mouth. This clearly tells us that we must speak less and listen more. Even in Bible it teaches us not to speak more than listening.
But, in the human world, people like to speak more. Those who speak too much will not be welcomed by us. Besides, we cannot trust the people who speak too much.
If we can have the habit to listen more, we can learn more knowledge from others. Or we can only have the knowledge which is obtained from the circumstances around us.
Even our greatest educationer in ancient time. Confucius, he also said: ‘Among the three people who walk together with us, and one of them can be our teacher.”
Sometimes, we may learn something from children who can say something at different angle by a direct observation from the world. May be some philosophy can be discovered from children’s eyes.
Surely it is certain that if we can apply a “Speaking less, listening more” policy in our life, we will have many benefits from what we have done with the people we are in associate with. Society will welcome us if they know we hold a character of speaking less and listening more.