So what? It's a very useful skill to know how to entice, encourage, and work with people who have more power than you. Among other benefits, it opens up posit

So what? It's a very useful skill to know how to entice, encourage, and work with people who have more power than you. Among other benefits, it opens up positions in the very top echelons of society, where (by definition) you are going to meet lots of people you have zero leverage over. It also means you get to work on high-performing teams (high-performing employees tend to get their pick of where they work), and it's just a lot nicer work environment when everybody is there because they choose to be rather than because they have to be. I feel like there's some fairly large subset of humanity that assumes that nothing ever gets done without some overseer cracking the whip, and just lacks the conceptual framework to understand people coming together to accomplish things because they mutually agree that it's work worth doing. It's worth breaking out of that frame.