Rubbish maxims
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Crappy advice you find on LinkedIn™
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A love letter to LinkedIn, thought for the day, life coaches and motivation gurus everywhere, this is a collection of airheaded aphorisms that sound profound but ooze vacuity. This is not just when that home insurance lawyer tags impenetrable Kierkegaard aphorisms with #quotestoliveby - I mean how does one live by “life expresses the result of our dominant thoughts?” — what does it even mean, and if it does mean something, won’t it just happen automatically? — but something in more wishful denial of how significance the world in general, and Denise in accounts in particular, attaches to your problems.
- Be the best version of yourself — assuming you are possessed of self-awareness and good judgment, which most of you are not.
- Your value does not decrease based on someone else’s inability to see your worth — except that it does, actually.
- You do not inspire people by showing them how amazing you are, but by showing them how amazing they are — but in most cases neither of you will be inspiring anyone.
- Blowing out someone else’s candle won’t make yours burn any brighter — except that’s why they turn the lights out at the cinema.
- Every boss started out as a worker — as did every deadbeat and every grifter.
- Every journey starts with one step — however pointless it may be.
- We rise ourselves by lifting others — you say rise, you mean “subjugate”.
- It takes being let down to appreciate those who lift you up. Be a lifter — or, be the one who lets people down and have an equal impact.
- Believe this: You are exquisite. You are exceptional. You are limitless. — or better still, don’t believe it. Much less scope for injury and disappointment.