Understanding communication can help you find wisdom.

“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

Epictetus, Greek philosopher, c. 50 – 135 AD

Psychoanalyst Richard Billow (2021) proposed four aspects of truth in human communication: diplomacy, integrity, sincerity, and authenticity. I’d like to apply this to how we describe our experience of death…

The essential additional ingredient for processing grief is wisdom which lies outside these four truths. People with compassionate, first hand experience of death are more likely to have it while the inexperienced are not…

Wisdom is none of these truths and it may not even be true. The value of wisdom lies in its effect. The value of the truths lies in exposing wisdom. By taking away or accounting for these aspects of communication you may be better able to find what you’re looking for.

Diplomacy
Integrity
Sincerity
Authenticity
Grief
Wisdom


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