If you want to state your opinion WITHOUT any opportunity for response or argument or pushback or growth, write a blog.
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t. ― Bill Nye
Once you internalize the above, it becomes easier to shut up and listen to others. Enter every conversation assuming that you have something to learn.
Most of us don’t listen with the intent to understand. We listen with the intent to reply. ― Stephen Covey
Listen to people, and be prepared to be amazed.
If your mouth is open, you are not learning. ― Buddha
Source: Celeste Headlee’s TED Talk: 10 Ways to have a better conversation.