离真相越近，内心越安静The Closer You Are to the Truth, the More Silent You Become Inside
Naval：我之前发过一条推文："你离真相越近，内心就越安静。"
我们凭直觉就能明白这一点。当一个人喋喋不休，或是像宫廷小丑一样插科打诨时，你知道他内心并不安宁。你知道罗宾·威廉姆斯（Robin Williams）内心并不平静。
智慧孕育斯多葛
我们期待像老子或苏格拉底这样的智者保持安静——不是因为他们在故作高深，而是因为他们内心本就宁静。我们明白，平静与智慧相辅相成。
卡皮尔·古普塔（Kapil Gupta）在这个话题上的著述远比我多，他说过："智慧孕育斯多葛，斯多葛不能孕育智慧。"当你变得有智慧时，你会自然而然地变得斯多葛。你不可能靠做斯多葛而变得有智慧。那就本末倒置了。
顺便说一句，我前几天发的一条推文被严重误解了。太多人没通过那道智商测试。我写道："你越聪明，读得越慢。"速读圈的人被激怒了，有人说："可是比尔·盖茨一年读 150 本书。"还有人反驳："我读得很慢，所以我肯定很聪明。"他们都理解错了。我说的是"如果 A，那么 B"，那并不等于"如果 B，那么 A"。
Naval: I put out this tweet a while back: “The closer you are to the truth, the more silent you become inside.”
We intuitively know this. When someone is blabbing too much or being the court jester, you know they’re not at peace. You know Robin Williams was not peaceful inside.
Wisdom begets stoicism
We expect a wise person like a Lao Tzu or Socrates to be quiet—not because they’re trying to look wise, but because they’re internally quiet. We understand that peace and wisdom go together.
Kapil Gupta, who’s written far more on this topic than I have, said, “Wisdom begets stoicism. Stoicism does not beget wisdom.” As you become wise, you naturally become stoic. You don’t become wise by being stoic. That’s reversing the cart and horse.
As an aside, one of my tweets the other day got incredibly misinterpreted. So many people failed that IQ test. I wrote, “The smarter you get, the slower you read.” The speed reading crowd got triggered, and people said, “Well, Bill Gates reads 150 books per year.” Others said, “I read really slowly, so I must be smart.” They got it wrong. I said, “If A, then B.” That doesn’t mean, “If B, then A.”