entpersonal
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I think its true for everything "just being adequate" will never get anyone promoted.
You know, Bill, you're super average. Come have a cigar in my office. Bill: WTF?
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I think its true for everything "just being adequate" will never get anyone promoted.
Something tells me lots of you have never worked in offices before.
Something tells me lots of you have never worked in offices before.
I think being smart makes you better off. Critical thinking skills can help you most of all. You get to view politicians with the understanding that their message is being condensed into sound bytes for the public while they juggle policy between the loudest and wealthiest special interests groups in an effort to stay in office long enough to promote other policy they actually believe in. You get to view the news media as a cutthroat business with very low profits that can't afford real reporters anymore and instead relies on regurgitating official statements (press releases) and either obsesses over the appearance of neutrality (so provides no analysis of these statements) or goes far over the deep end into partisanship despite being fully aware that they're reporting lies. You get to view the advertising media as a soulless machine that will stop at nothing to sell a product and knows full well that the best way to sell a product to people is by convincing them that they are broken without it. You get to know that religion is the means by which those who want your resources stir pathos in an effort to get you to give those resources to them.
Knowing all this, in my opinion, is much more helpful than it is hurtful.
Very insightful. Do you believe the world is getting better or worse?
Something tells me lots of you have never worked in offices before.
There's such a thing as being too smart for your own good. It's like being smart enough to be on a different level from everyone else, but not smart enough to realize when you've screwed yourself over.
I have to agree with this.
follow up question: why is the world like this? wouldn't it be better to ignore the people and do your job?