I am two ears and one mouth...

Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Whew, what a day.  Started working with a new project and it's been very hard work.  Very different from what I've been used to doing lately, so hopefully I can get up to speed quickly.  Change is always tough, but if I don't adapt to the change, then I'll get left behind in the dust. 

Anyway, in one of my meetings, I heard an awesome quote; "You have two ears and one mouth.  Utilize them proportionately." 

Such an awesome and very hard-hitting statement.  Do we listen MORE than we talk?  Or is it the other way around?  I never really thought about it this way.  I would like to think I listen more than I talk, but I sometimes think that I am guilty of talking more than I listen...even talking withOUT listening at all.  So according to the quote, we should listen TWICE as much as we listen.  This is a good tenet to have in my life I think.  I gotta keep it somewhere and keep it up.  I think at work, I might apply this philosphy, because I always wait to hear everything before I start asking questions; it just makes life more efficient.