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July
@july
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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Trish🫧
@trish
Agree with this so much ❤️
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will
@w
~peter principle! the more you succeed, the harder it is to stay grounded / in touch w reality related https://warpcast.com/w/0xca1fefbf
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downshift
@downshift.eth
also: courage threatens egos. all of my most successful ventures or projects were things at least some of my friends and family put down (if subtly) or said i couldn’t or shouldn’t do.
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BFG 🎩↑🌱
@bfg
Pertinent observation 👍 really. Although it’s good to keep the child inside of you alive and happy to make mistakes. I guess unless nations or wars depend on it (per Putin comment), people generally just do “higher stakes stupid things” without being checked by friends or others - but they can afford it, so in big picture, it is fine 🤷♂️ and it shouldn’t be strange. But I think everyone, we all, need to cultivate a bit of skepticism towards translating successful peoples’ status into “they must know what they’re doing” thinking in areas they have zero credibility in.
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Angelika Kollin
@angelikakollin
You just wrote a short biography of Vladimir Putin
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