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Conversation is meant to benefit self and others. But in an attempt to benefit, you can bring pain to others, which in turn creates pain for yourself. To understand good decorum of speech, we must understand what virtue is, and in order to understand that, we must thoroughly contemplate it. Reflect on your speech patterns. If you find yourself mostly arguing, whining, insulting, and telling crude jokes, then you are obviously not using good decorum. Virtue has many qualities. In conversation, it is gentleness, lack of aggression, and being kind.
The Lost Art of Good Conversation
Sakyong Mipham
Smith understands something deep about human nature with this warning. Hard-and-fast rules are easier to keep than rules that are slightly relaxed. The opposite should be true. You’d think abstinence would be much harder to keep than moderation. Yet it is much easier to give up potato chips than to eat just one. Or a few. But shouldn’t it be otherwise? Shouldn’t it be easier to limit yourself to a few chips than to have none? Yet a few often leads to a few more. And a few more. Smith counsels us to keep the general rules of justice with the “greatest exactness.” They are “accurate in the highest degree, and admit of no exceptions or modifications.”
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
Russ Roberts
Speak confidently as if you are right but listen carefully as if you are wrong.
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
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