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Posted 22-08-2009Reply

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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Priya Reddy
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  Rated 0 | Posted 22-08-2009

Gud one Cherin...............

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  Rated 0 | Posted 25-08-2009

Hey Cherin this has been posted manytyms here...



http://hrlink.in/topics/the-triple-... See Priya's complete reply


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

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  Rated 0 | Posted 25-08-2009

Gud one Cherin...............


Thank you priya for your comments........

Have a great day.............

Cheers
Cherin

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  Rated 0 | Posted 25-08-2009

anyway this was nice.
thanks cherin for sharing.
it doesnt harm even if you have posted it again.

Cherin
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  Rated 0 | Posted 25-08-2009

anyway this was nice.

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

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