behaviors Jim needs to do more of...

William Kristol on Tim Russert

Tim showed up one day, looked around, and took a few of us out for a beer. It took me about two minutes of conversation to realize that Tim was far savvier about politics — especially New York Democratic politics — than we at headquarters were, but he was polite and pretended to listen to our observations. In fact, as Tim told me later, he quickly concluded that most of us had no idea what we were doing — which was certainly the case.

I tend to shoot my mouth off... need to not do that... listen to people... learn from people. Ask David Pacini has always taught me... "when someone wants to know your opinion they'll ask you." Telling them what you think won't teach them anything... they'll never here you...