I'm torn. One on hand, I agree that automatic responses like "I'm fine" aren't particularly accurate and can mask true emotions and feelings in a sea of polite

I'm torn. One on hand, I agree that automatic responses like "I'm fine" aren't particularly accurate and can mask true emotions and feelings in a sea of politeness. On the other hand, this piece is incredibly arrogant. "We are supermen and women skipping through daises and pulling cash from behind the ears of thankfully, delighted customers who are saved from the old guard. We don’t make mistakes; we pivot. We don’t win; we crush it." If the author's advice is to 'cut through the bullshit', then I sincerely advise him to stop writing stuff like the above quote. You are an entrepreneur writing to an audience of primarily entrepreneurs. Ego-stroking is just as bad as fake positivity, and drowning your message in it is just as bad too. "I challenge you to take a day and care. I dare you to listen actively and when you ask someone “How are you,” that you demand a deeply truthful answer." And I take some level of offense to this; first, that the author presumes that I don't already care, and that those people I talk to aren't being 'deeply truthful'. The majority of my friends and family are surrounded by people they generally like doing things they generally enjoy. They might not be ecstatic -- but they're definitely fine. Most people know -- or should know -- that things could always be worse. Your business might be in trouble, you might not have reached every single goal heaped upon you as a child (see Dave McClure's recent post) but yeah, chances are, you're fine.