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Do you have to open your mouth every chance that you get, so you can pontificate to anyone that will listen to you?
Please, shut the mouth and remove your foot, people don’t want to hear you march on with your mouth. They would like you to listen to them, and then (hang on) don’t say anything.
I thought Lincoln said this, but according to a book I have Mark Twain said it: “It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.”
Whether it was Lincoln or Twain it is good statement and I wish I could take credit for it. People have to talk and give their opinions to other people who really don’t care. Take your boss. I know this is hard for some of the more outspoken and stupid people to believe this, but your boss does not want to hear from you every time he makes a decision. The boss makes a decision for better or worse, and after the decision has been made, it has been made. Either work with it, or go find a job somewhere else- it will probably be a better job anyway. And many times when the boss makes a decision he could lose his or her job by making it, so he or she would like some cooperation, please.
How about your significant other- they don’t want to hear it either, unless you’re in your “cups,” “three sheets to the wind” so to speak, and then who cares.
How about someone that is directing you to help you be better (a teacher, a philosopher, a friend or someone else that could help you)? If they make a mistake, do you have to correct them all of the time? Just go with it and move on with life. My goodness, why all of the hubbub? Save it for something really important, like when you might be really right, and then you can really lower the boom and make sure you will never have a friend, someone to help you, or someone that will make sure to prove you wrong next time and say, “I told you so.”
Keep it shut- and do something unusual- think about what you are going to say and then don’t say it, since it probably won’t make any difference anyway and you will appear understanding, someone that could be leaned on, and relativity smart. Maybe even someone that could be counted on in the future, someone that deserves a raise and a promotion. So zip it, you aren’t the smartest, brightest or thinnest person on the planet anyway- that’s what Ma Jones reminded me growing up when I got too full of it myself.
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