{"id":3235,"date":"2018-12-28T02:48:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T02:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2018-12-28T02:48:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T02:48:38","slug":"listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/28\/listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I used to be an avid talker. I had my box full of topics to debate over thanks to my over-consumption of TV, Twitter, and Reddit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past few years, I have learned the virtue of listening and silence. It has truly transformed me in better self. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The virtue of listening has helped me with not taking an instant or rash decision. In crude terms, I am using my prefrontal cortex more efficiently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The advantage of listening is that you won&#8217;t burn yourself in arguing non-rationally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The acceptance of the truth that &#8220;I don&#8217;t know anything&#8221; helps in seeing the world very logical. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to be an avid talker. I had my box full of topics to debate over thanks to my over-consumption of TV, Twitter, and Reddit. Over the past few years, I have learned the virtue of listening and silence. It has truly transformed me in better self. The virtue of listening has helped me &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/28\/listen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Listen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[510],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3236,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/3236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}