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Well, you ''would'' inspire them by showing them how amazing you were, ''if'' you were amazing, but — | {{a|shitmaxim|“Blow smoke up other people’s arse, not your own”<br>}}{{shitmaxim|You do not inspire people by showing them how amazing you are, but by showing them how amazing they are}}. Well, you ''would'' inspire them by showing them how amazing you were, ''if'' you were amazing, but — let’s face facts here — statistically speaking, almost certainly, you’re not — come in Messrs. Dunning and Krueger, so rather than aggravating them with your mediocrity, it’s better to make them think ''they’re'' amazing instead. | ||
Now, it is highly likely they ''won’t'' be any more amazing than you are — they’re reading your crappy [[LinkedIn]] post, after all, so that should give you some sense of it — but a feature of this kind of guileless mediocrity is gullibility and wilful self-delusion, so they’ll probably believe you. | Now, it is highly likely they ''won’t'' be any more amazing than you are — they’re reading your crappy [[LinkedIn]] post, after all, so that should give you some sense of it — but a feature of this kind of guileless mediocrity is gullibility and wilful self-delusion, so they’ll probably believe you. | ||
Even if they don’t, most people still like to be told they’re amazing, however implausible or disingenuous it obviously is, so go right ahead and blow smoke up their | Even if they don’t, most people still like to be told they’re amazing, however implausible or disingenuous it obviously is, so go right ahead and blow smoke up their arse. | ||
In summary: ''blow smoke up other people’s | In summary: ''blow smoke up other people’s arse, not your own''. | ||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
*[[Persuasion]] | *[[Persuasion]] | ||