We need to use our ears . If I have done one thing too much, and one thing too little, it is that I have issued too many orders and listened too little to the responses to those orders. I became conditioned to that kind of response. I would come home and snap my fingers and expect that to happen. The more important thing, however, is to listen for what is not said, or to listen to what is said and try to figure out what really happened.
Silence is expressive.
Well, that's not a big thing. My wife knows how to pick up socks. With two males and three females around the house, she's accustomed to doing this. This just reflects a pressure break. Somewhere there is a lot of pressure that's being built up that I haven't really looked for.