Say Less Than Necessary I Robert Greene

so there's a law of power and they're

called always say less than necessary

very kind of common sense law and the

idea is that if you're in a meeting with

people

that man or woman who talks less

generally has an aura of power

particularly a boss they seem enigmatic

mysterious and when they do something

say something everybody's hanging on

their words what does that mean but say

whereas people who talk a lot give the

impression that they're weak they signal

weakness they can't control themselves

so they can't control themselves how can

they control anything in the business

world right

so we sense that in people so be aware

of that you're probably talking too much

in a lot of circumstances and maybe you

can control that and so this is kind of

a way of defending yourself in an

environment where people will tend to

see you as weak if you can't have any

self-control