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The Gervais Principle changed my life. Not all for good, but it did open my eyes wider, and it also helped explain some things that I couldn’t understand before
by projectileboy 5y ago
The Gervais Principle changed my life. Not all for good, but it did open my eyes wider, and it also helped explain some things that I couldn’t understand beforehand. (For example: I never understood why I found LinkedIn to be so depressing, until I saw that it was dominated by what Rao calls “the clueless” engaging in what he terms “posturetalk”. Many, many useful mental models in that book.)
- MeinBlutIstBlau 5y agoFor me it was the realization of being a loser, but being the difference between being a loser that busts your ass (dwight) and a loser that "gets it" (stanley). It opened my eyes and I stopped caring about getting fired at my low paid office job. And guess who never got fired even after slacking hardcore?