Very well stated. I wish my boss would learn to listen. He thinks that conversation means talking too someone. He’s forgotten about the listening part. Whenever someone is looking for my boss, the usual answer is;
He’s somewhere,
Telling someone,
How to do something.
Uncle Barry, you’ve hit a chord with me. To interrupt someone in mid sentence, tells them that you think they have nothing to say that’s worth listening to. That’s rude and insulting to everyone I know.
i.e. If you want to catch a 36" Steelhead, you need to fish with a purple leech bouncing it off the rocks on the bottom…No, No, No, I’m only a dry fly fisherman. That’s how you need to fish for the BIG ONES.
Mr. No, No, No, just lost the opportunity of a life time to catch a BIG ONE. Plus he just alienated a possible good fishing buddy.
Good morning Joe,
A thought was that,
something to make people think and look around them, then in turn maybe improve how we conduct our lifes.
(It does for me)
In your case, I bet, you would never conduct your life by the example dispayed by your boss therefore Mr Boss does not know it, but he is educating those around him on how not to treat other people and in the end he is the loser.
Your thought sort of reminds me of Grampa Noah’s favorite. “We have two ears and one mouth so we should listen twice as much as we talk.” Who knows, someone may have a fresh new idea that works better than “the way we’ve always done it”.