Yo, today's QOD is, if you open your mouth, you're not learning.

Here we go.

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host, Sean Crox and Sean Crox and

.com. We got some less headly on the show today. She's going to share her 10 best tips for

having these are three very profound things, by the way, for having more authentic conversations,

for becoming a better listener and learning from each other.

And they're profound in my opinion, because generally speaking, this is just my personal experience.

People aren't really interested in having conversations. We're not interested in learning from

each other. We're generally interested in living in echo chambers where everybody thinks

and believes the same thing. We are interested in having our beliefs and our opinions

constantly confirmed by others. You know, a couple of very impressionable things happen to me when I was a kid.

Number one, I stumbled upon, I don't know how this happened, I stumbled upon, it's like fifth grade, Timothy Leary's

quote, think for yourself and question authority. And I read 1984 by George Orwell and I was fascinated

by this thing called group think. I was like, wow, group think, that's interesting.

And I've always been the type of individual who prides himself on thinking for myself, just

because somebody else believes something doesn't mean that I have to believe it.

I'm going to research it, I'm going to think about it, I'm going to experience it, I'm going to look at it

as many sides as I can possibly look at. And then I'm going to decide what I think, what I believe about it.

And if you were to ask me, you know, let me back up a little bit.

This is funny, I'm going to say this, but I've kind of given up on dating.

I haven't given up on love and, you know, marriage and kids at 44 years old.

The universe will kind of figure that whole thing out for me when it's ready to figure it out.

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