Happiness involves charity, being grateful, but that is for another time. 
Gossips in the workplace? Socrates has the answer. Socrates had three filters, 
 but I reduced them to two due to our timing. 
First filter: is it a fact or gossip? "Mary told me that John thought 
 that..." This is gossip and I do not want to know it. 
It did not go through the first filter. The second filter is the 
 one of goodness. Let us assume that we have a fact. 
Socrates would ask about the fact: "whatever you have to tell me 
 (the fact), is it something that will improve our business?
will this improve our relationship, our productivity? No?  I do not 
 want to hear it. With these two filters we eliminate
95% of gossips in our work environment. Socrates had the answer centuries ago.
