The Art of Shutting Up

How I Came To Appreciate The Value of Saying Nothing At All

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I have always been a garrulous sort of chap ( when I am not locked in a room by myself trying to harvest words out of thin air). I bluster, I gossip, I share, ( probably overshare) I am opinionated, I fill the ether with blather.

When a problem arises my immediate instinct is to talk about it. Let’s confront the proble…