Blowing out someone else’s candle won’t make yours burn any brighter
Blowing out someone else’s candle won’t make yours burn any brighter
Crappy advice you find on LinkedIn™
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Another one for those so taken with the prettiness and metaphorical possibilities of their own aphorism, they miss its literal falsehood.
For it should not take a visit to a cinema with the lights on, or a fireworks display at lunchtime, to know this not to be true. Now you might think it right that doing down your fellow won’t improve your own career prospects — through try not to watch Game of Thrones or work at Barclays if you want to hang onto that idea — but if, all other things being equal, you want your own light to burn brighter in the eyes of your superiors, most certainly put a bushel on the lights of others.
It’s all relative, folks.