stay quiet and let people talk. Sometimes it isn't what they are saying you should hear.

In my younger years I was so anxious to prove my point of view, sometimes I never heard the other person.

As I have grown older and wiser, I have learned to really listen to them appreciating others point of views.  Not to mention something turns on in the brain, I can't explain it....  You hear things differently, whether it is things they like most, dislike most, relationship and always as woman decipher what she is saying (you know her underlying message which really isn't wait she is saying).

I am not good at the decipher, many of my true friends know this, and say exactly what they mean.

From my part of the US it is called honesty.