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My experience after 45y on earth:

Smart people don't listen to others, others listen to smart people.

So, I don't listen to anyone. There is so much words and so less meaning. As soon some one opens his mouth, words and tone tend to manipulate (steer) another. I hear, but don't listen :)

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> Smart people don't listen to others

I can't tell if this is a joke.

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Your ability to not listen is dependent on the speaker's ability to jailbreak your mental sandbox. So you may have deluded yourself into thinking you're not being manipulated by anyone, when in reality, you're only not being manipulated by those whose steering you can recognize.

The steering cancels eachother out if you listen to many people at once, so it's not really an issue. Kind of like how averaging many noisy still photos of the same object denoises it.

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