TALK LESS...SAY MORE

There's a popular cowboy saying in the west: "When there's nothing more to be said, don't be saying it."

Rough and tumble cowboys (checkout Clint Eastwood) talk less and usually end up saying a whole lot more. Why is it so difficult to endure "dead airtime" when we're hanging with someone?

Here's a great experiment: Listen objectively to a typical conversation between two people, then make a judgement about how long that conversation could have lasted if the conversants were talking less and saying more. Here's just a few advantages of following this cowboy philosophy:

1. You will be misunderstood less.
2. You will not have to ask for forgiveness as much.
3. You will not have to drink as much water because your mouth is dry.
4. You will not be guilty of telling the same stories to the same people.
5. You will be able to get by with a smaller vocabulary.
6. You will have more time to listen. :)
7. You will end up swallowing less tobacco juice.

Try it for a week and let me know how it goes.
DOM