Thoreau’s wisdom on silence and shouting
Thoreau wrote, "There are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout." Yet, a century and a half later, we've created a culture that equates loudness with leadership and abrasiveness with authority.
Keltner adds to Thoreau's wisdom that a new wave of thinking about power shows that it's given to us by others, not grabbed. Our influence is only as good as what others think of us. Enduring power is a privilege that depends on other people to give it to us.
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