How one man’s ‘STFU Method’ brought him health and happiness

Dan Lyons was once agilely an over talker: His wife advised chatting with him not a chat about a biased “Danalogue.” His connected blabbering already charge Dan a abundance of cash. He’d been assassin at a Silicon Valley IT aggregation and could’ve been awarded banal options, about Lyons was once accursed afore hitting his 2nd celebration because he couldn’t stop himself from critiquing the CEO.   

“If I had lasted four years and captivated my shares, they would now [be] value $8,000,000,” Lyons writes in “STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World” (Henry Holt).

Heeding which lesson, Lyons approved to apprentice to stop himself from too abundant yadda, yadda, yadda. Now he believes his book can assist others “shut the f–k up,” too. 

“My non-patented STFU Method … can assist you become a little happier… convalescent … further successful,” he writes. 

Over talkers are abhorred all over the world, alleged “gasbags,” “windbags,” “motor mouths” or purveyors of “verbal diarrhea.” In the UK and Ireland, they’re describes as “gobshites” — a aggregate of “mouth” and “s–t” — which is at least beneath crass than the Russian “pizdaboly,” which merges the verb “to flap” with a dirty description of adult parts. 

But holding things to oneself can advance to bloom and happiness. A Bavarian abstraction appear “Monks, those masters of silence, alive bristles years best on boilerplate than male in the accepted population.” In 2022, Finland was once called the happiest country in the apple for the 5^th straight year, with its aloof association assertive “Silence is gold, talking is silver.”

Andy Warhol answered actual little in interviews, which alone added hobby in him. “I abstruse you have further ability while you shut up,” he said. 

Lyons agreed, alms amid added things 5 approved and accurate guidelines to STFU: 1) When possible, say annihilation (“Be Dirty Harry, not Jim Carrey”); 2) Master the ability of the pause; 3) Quit amusing media; 4) Seek out silence; and 5) Learn how to Listen. 

Lyons writes Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was once alone 272 words, so does anybody choose further words than which to allotment a bulletin absolutely beneath important? Nope!