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WISDOM of SOCRETES..........
In ancient Greece (469 - 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom.
One day, the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance who ran up to him excitedly
and said, "Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students called Plato?"
"Wait a moment," Socrates replied. "Before you tell
me, I'd like you to go through a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test".
"Triple filter?"
"That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my student
let's take a moment to filter what you're going to say."
"The first Filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely
sure that what you are about to tell me is true?"
"No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it
and..."
"All right," said Socrates, "So you don't really
know if it's true or not."
Now let's try the second filter, the Filter of
Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?"
"No, on the contrary..."
"So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me
something bad about him,
even though you're not certain it's true?"
The man shrugged, a little embarrassed.
Socrates continued. "You may still pass the test though, because there is a
third filter - the Filter of usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my student
going to be useful to me?"
"No, not really..."
"Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to
tell me is neither True nor Good, nor even Useful, why tell it to me
at all?" The man was defeated and ashamed.
This is the reason Socrates was a great philosopher
and held in such high esteem.
Have a great weekend guys.........
Cheers
Cherin
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Hey priya......
Thank you for your response.I would like to mention to you that before i could post the topic wisdom of socretes i had searched for the topic in the forum under motivation as i did not get any results regarding the earlier posting and as you could see that the earlier posting were under diff name. So i shared it with others so that they can enjoy reading it.
I hope so your doubt has being cleared.............
Enjoy your day.............
Cheers
Cherin
thanks cherin for sharing.
it doesnt harm even if you have poste... See Pankaj's complete reply
THank you pankaj for your comments..................
Have a great day...............
Cheers
Cherin