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{{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, so rather than aggravating them with your mediocrity, it’s better to make them think ''they’re'' amazing instead. | {{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. |