My friend and associate Harriet is splendid at business and far more successful than I. She goes to seminars on how to be a success.
“Heard a really dynamic speaker last week,” she told me over lunch.
“Yeah? What’d he say?” I’ve never cared for the idea of a speaker being ‘dynamic’. Goebbels was dynamic – some say more so than Hitler.
“Well for one thing, he said you shouldn’t waste time talking to people who can’t do anything for you”
“Did you like this speaker?”
“Not much, she shrugged.
“I would think not. That’s the most corrosive bit of logic I’ve ever heard. I mean, by that doctrine, you couldn’t talk to me.”
“I know,” she nodded. There was a coldness about her I’d never sensed.
We finished lunch and after that day she didn’t return my phone calls.
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