The value of humility depends very much on the culture in which you are operating.
A ghetto kid you behaves humble will have a hard time. On the other hand in Japan being humble is very important and there's social punishment from deviating from that standard.
Overconfidence in your hand is okay when you play poker. It costs you games when you play go.
First, people remember their first impressions and usually don't update.
I think you underrate the effect of broken promises and failing to deliver.
When a potential competitor rises his head, don't stay quiet, but destroy him. When he sufficiently shows that he learned his lesson, you may show some mercy again.
Outside of the ghetto where people value civilised society that's not a good strategy. You frequently do lose social status when you destroy another person. There the phrase of giving someone the ropes to hang themselves. Everyone likes the king's death but nobody likes the king's slayer.
In one review of the scientific evidence on LW there's the conclusion that modesty increases career success while efforts at self-promotion and being assertive rather diminish it. Especially if you see yourself as someone who's not good at navigating social interactions you should bring a better argument if you want to contradict the published papers.
The value of humility depends very much on the culture in which you are operating.
Yes. So, to be more specific, I am usually thinking about an IT company in Europe, where the bosses EDIT: don't care about the details of the development process, so they cannot judge an individual's contribution well, and they mostly see the team output, where the details are mostly in a "black box".
I think you underrate the effect of broken promises and failing to deliver.
If you are a member of a team, and the team delivers the product, how would the boss k...
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