Two men were walking along a crowded sidewalk bin a downtown business area. Suddenly one of them exclaimed, “Listen to the lovely sound of that cricket!”

The other man, who couldn’t hear a thing above the din of the heavy traffic and people bustling around, was amazed at how his friend could detect the sound of a cricket.

The first man, who was in fact a zoologist, simply took out a coin, and dropped it on the sidewalk. Immediately a dozen people nearby starting looking about them.

“We hear,” explained the zoologist, “what we listen for.”

Experience has put a fence around the way we think, see and hear. Free your mind and listen to your inner voice.