It’s All About The Mouth – Part 2
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Check out It’s All About The Mouth – Part 1 in case you missed it.
I’m not what one might call a big talker. As I get older, I talk less and less. It’s not that I have nothing to say; it’s just that I think I get a lot more out of life by being a better listener.
So at social gatherings of friends and families I’m usually the guy who has the least to say. You wouldn’t know it by my blog posts. I know, I’m a bit long winded in my stories and I’m constantly advised to make things shorter. I’ll give it a shot, but I don’t really know if that’s me as a writer.
They say that nobody has time to read anymore, so keep it short. And yet look at the success of the Kindle. Somebody out there is still doing a lot of reading.
Perhaps it’s you to whom I’m talking.
In creative meetings I learned long ago to be the guy who has little to say at the beginning of the meeting when listening to everybody else is important. Then when it’s time to summarize or in fact come up with the concept, I’m usually the guy who can synthesize all the ideas together into a concept that everybody agrees with because I’ve been the guy who’s been listening. The process works.
