Two ears, one mouth

A short passage quoted from Jon Steel's book 'Perfect Pitch'. And with grateful thanks to Jon Steel, for writing something so eloquent, intuitively correct and inspirational to those of us who sometimes feel intimidated by the 'talkers' in this world:

"..... what follows is perhaps the most important lesson I have learned over the years of making new business presentations. It is also one of life's most important lessons, and you will see that it is a consistent theme of this book. It is this: successful communication and persuasion is not, as most people think, about being good at talking, having the gift of the gab. No, the best communicators, the best persuaders, are the best at what they do because invariably they are good listeners."