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> A degree of spin and image and projecting confidence is necessary to convince people that someone is worth following. But people are not worth following. In
by crabmusket 3y ago
> A degree of spin and image and projecting confidence is necessary to convince people that someone is worth following.
But people are not worth following. In the context of work, ideas might be good or bad, and the good ones don't need spin unless the environment is already as toxic as Chernobyl.
- t43562 3y agoEveryone has competing ideas. There's no unanimous agreement on what "good" is. We don't all have enough knowledge to judge each idea purely on merit - a lot of the time our only way to judge is to see if the proposer really believes in it. So ideas have to be sold. I think this is the cause of lots of problems in the world - we cannot all be scientists, laywers, doctors, engineers etc and we have to make judgements about who to put our faith in.