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Stairway to heaven and the sick sense
Interesting New Scientist focus this week. Self-promotion comes naturally to narcissists. It leads with an image of George W Bush thumbs up.
Emma Young: HUMILITY. Empathy. Selflessness. These are qualities most of us associate with being a “nice person”. But being nice doesn’t often help you in the fierce competition to get that job, win a project or secure a promotion. No one likes an egocentric big-head but if, as they say, “you are your own brand”, perhaps in this modern world it pays to be a bit narcissistic."
Again my mind leaps to the incomprehensible success of Trump over the past 6 months. Many people appear to be enthralled by him. I'm afraid it doesn't work in any measure for me. Maybe that's because I too am narcissist! Always worth asking ourselves but it doesn't mean we want to take on the mantel of that other sick sense.. that of self-loathing! What else but mutual need must bring about prevailing unease in every walk of life we know as celebrity culture? What may work in football or music clearly doesn't feel right in politics. Politicians of all persuasions need their sheep.
Fresh report. 2nd Tesla car crash being investigated. Tesla is the autonomous car that has an autodrive setting... a driver-less setting!
Stairway to heaven and the sick sense
Interesting New Scientist focus this week. Self-promotion comes naturally to narcissists. It leads with an image of George W Bush thumbs up.
Emma Young: HUMILITY. Empathy. Selflessness. These are qualities most of us associate with being a “nice person”. But being nice doesn’t often help you in the fierce competition to get that job, win a project or secure a promotion. No one likes an egocentric big-head but if, as they say, “you are your own brand”, perhaps in this modern world it pays to be a bit narcissistic."
Again my mind leaps to the incomprehensible success of Trump over the past 6 months. Many people appear to be enthralled by him. I'm afraid it doesn't work in any measure for me. Maybe that's because I too am narcissist! Always worth asking ourselves but it doesn't mean we want to take on the mantel of that other sick sense.. that of self-loathing! What else but mutual need must bring about prevailing unease in every walk of life we know as celebrity culture? What may work in football or music clearly doesn't feel right in politics. Politicians of all persuasions need their sheep.
Fresh report. 2nd Tesla car crash being investigated. Tesla is the autonomous car that has an autodrive setting... a driver-less setting!