Real-time ability to be diplomatic is a much rarer verbal intelligence skill than conversational wit. Noncommittal is harder than funny.
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because it requires keeping in check that ego trying to one-up what was said previously ?
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Certainly true for me. So much easier to dunk on people than real-time translate what they're saying to what they actually want.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity,
exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.
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Patanjali yoga sutra explained by Vivekananda. Restraint on hearing words... Sutra no. 9 archive.org/stream/Patanja





