What are you talking about?
On our bookshelf, there is a plaque with this quote from Eleanor Roosevelt:
“Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.”
While I’ve always aspired to such an ideal, upon further investigation, I found two problems with this quote:
- Apparently, Eleanor Roosevelt never said it.
- When you say it out loud, you sound awfully elitist and judgmental.
Meaning in our lives is derived by what we actually do (events) and who we do them with (people). …