"Listening exerts a greater influence than speaking. We don't listen because we are only looking for a chance to say our own words."
Today's Question
In your conversations today, what sentence did you miss because you were busy mentally preparing 'what to say' next?
The real reason you keep checking your watch during a conversation
François de La Rochefoucauld observed the ego hidden behind the vanity of 17th-century French society. He believed people talk to show intellectual superiority, not to connect.
In the salons, he noticed people pretend to listen but are actually just waiting to intercept with their own words. He warned, 'The reason we don't listen is that we are only looking for a chance to speak ourselves.'