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When you are just starting out -- there are a lot more people who say "no" when they should be saying "yes" to your ideas. Essentially you are underestimated (and sometimes rightly so, because see naive hubris) What I've seen is that as you become more successful, and increasingly over time, you get more people who just constantly start saying "yes" when they really should be saying "no" to your ideas (because, again its not like you've become less naive). This starts become dangerous, and puts you increasingly in a emperors wearing no clothes situation I really think it becomes harder to have friends who tell you the truth consistently and how it is as one gains more success, or at least externally recognized. Just my two cents
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July
@july
I've seen this happen a few times, where one accumulates power or wealth (sometimes by luck, sometimes by hard work, sometimes by somewhere in between) or at least what you think is wealth or success (turns out there's always higher) and it really changes the dynamic of your relationship with people around you who were friends etc. They start to trust your judgment (even if its stupid) or at least are significantly more willing to go along with your idea, and somehow think you are a genius of sorts
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You are essentially vastly overestimated on all your skills, and it is jarring for folks because first of all, they probably haven't changed on all their skills, and it doesn't really change who you are, where as how you are seen completely changes.
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