Before you express an opinion, do this
[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- OZANVAROL.COM -- We've so lowered the threshold for stating an opinion that we stopped doing the work that's required to express one. Instead of bothering to listen, read, or even skim, we rely on sound bites ... But if we haven't read it, we shouldn't have an opinion on it. It's that simple. This means that, from time to time, we must utter those three dreaded words: "I don't know." When we candidly acknowledge that we don't have an opinion, our mind opens and our ears perk up. As Stoic philosopher Epictetus put it, "it is impossible to learn that which one thinks one already knows." ...
