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June    25th

THE WISE    DON’T   HAVE    “PROBLEMS”

“This   is  why we  say that    nothing happens to  the wise    person  contrary    to  their   expectations.”

—SENECA,    ON  TRANQUILITY OF  MIND,   13.3b

esiod, the poet, said that “the best treasure is a sparing tongue.” Robert Greene considers it a law of
power: Always Say Less Than Necessary.
We talk because we think it’s helping, whereas in reality it’s making things hard for us. If our spouse is
venting, we want to tell them what they should do. In fact, all they actually want us to do is hear them. In
other situations, the world is trying to give us feedback or input, but we try to talk ourselves out of the
problem—only to make it worse.
So today, will you be part of the problem or part of the solution? Will you hear the wisdom of the
world or drown it out with more noise?