The Smartest People Never Stop Listening
9 Jul 2026 · 0 min

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Codie Sanchez cites Epictetus: we have two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak. Smart people ask questions and listen. Dumb people never stop talking.

Codie Sanchez cites Epictetus: we have two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak. Smart people ask questions and listen. Dumb people never stop talking.
So Epictetus said that we have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. The dumbest people I know, they never stop talking, and the smartest people I know never stop asking questions and listening.

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