To generalize is to be an idiot.
William Blake
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Generalization is something to be used wisely, because can be something that comes back on you.
One generalization helps explaining, two do the same, more give the others the feeling you do not own the content.
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Talkers are no good doers.
William Shakespeare, “Henry VI”
One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody’s listening. Franklin P. Jones
An happy wedding is a long conversation that seems too short.
A. Maurois
I tend to speak a lot.
Maybe is my desire to stay in the spotlight, but I tend to talk a lot. Not an exaggeration, but more than normal.
I worked a lot to correct this behavior, since I learned during my career that listening is at least as important as speaking.
Is not a problem of prevaricating, but more of learning from (if possible) and understanding (always) from your opponent.
It does not matter if you win or loose the discussion if you have learned something from it.
Of course winning is more often what we dispute for, but always in loosing there’s a way to get off something.
What I do each time I have the chance (or the time 
) from a discussion is to focus on what has happened and spend a couple of minutes to debrief by my self or, if possible, with colleagues.
If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.
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