Keep Secrets
And now we come to a key, to an important part of this program. And that is the advice of Shlomo Hamelech: ר≈ בַ„¿ ̇ לַ‡ ילƒס¿כ י≈נ¿זָ‡¿ ב - Don’t speak into the ears of a fool (Mishlei 23:9). Don’t tell other people about your ideals.
You know why? Because ך∆ לƒמ ל∆כ≈ׂ ̆¿ל ז בוָי – he’ll disdain your sensible words (ibid.) Once you tell it to him, then you have ruined the whole program. First of all he might say, "Who needs it?" and then it’s goodbye ideal. The whole thing lands like a dud; he erased it with his reaction.
But even if he didn't say anything like that, he just looks at you – that look is enough to ruin all your hopes. He looks at you with a deadpan face and right away it discourages you. You see he’s not nispa’el, not excited, and you get cooled off too. Now it could be he’s very polite. He won’t say “It’s nothing.” And he listens too. But he won’t be excited; he’ll be bored. What you’re excited about, what you’re interested in, he’s not so excited about and it turns out to be a dud. You see there’s no response, that it fell flat, and so you’re weakened in your enthusiasm. He’s throwing water on you and extinguishing the fire of your enthusiasm.
