1. Silence is golden.
Throughout most of my life, I had always been a big talker. I always jumped at the opportunity to hear myself speak.
It has now become clear to me that saying less is much more powerful than talking. Listening and asking questions is not only admirable and impressive-it makes you smarter and puts you in a better position.
Shut up and listen, others will pour their hearts out to you. They will tell you too much. They will give you the most invaluable commodity in the world: information. George Bernard Shaw, co founder of the London School of Economics put it perfectly. “Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections and conceal your own.”
