People often wonder why some people have such great friends and manage to keep them...If you manage to apply the following in your life, the same couldworkfor you:
In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in highesteem. One day an acquaintance met the great philosopher and said, "Do youknow what I just heard about your friend?" "Hold on a minute," Socrates replied. "Before telling me anything I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter test." "Triple filter?" "That's right," Socrates continued."Before you talk to me about my friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you're going to say. That's why I call it the triple filtertest. The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that whatyou 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 trueor not. Now let's try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what youare about to tell me about my friend something good?" No, on the contrary..." "
So,
"Socrates continued, "You want to tell me something bad about him, butyou're not certain it's true. You may still pass the test though, because there's onefilter left: the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my friend 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?"
This is why Socrates was a great philosopher ; was held in such high esteem. If we are able to protect our friends and those we love in this manner, we cannot be influenced by outsiders in having bad notions about them.
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