The Power of Saying Less I Robert Greene

by talking too much in a meeting or in

any kind of situation you make people

inadvertently smell weakness on you a

lot of communication between humans is

non-verbal we feel we sense something

from you and it communicates and we have

an impression and people who talk a lot

generally give an impression of they

don't know how to control themselves

whereas people who kind of say a little

bit less who kind of speak in riddles

almost who say yeah that's great I'll

think about it or whatever gives off an

impression of power as if they know more

than they actually do because the game

of power a lot of it has to do with

appearances so I've studied you know if

for writing the book some of the most

powerful people in history Kings and

CEOs and presidents and inevitably they

have that quality but they knew how to

control their tongue the other thing is

if you talk too much you're gonna

inevitably say something stupid