What you don’t seem to get, students of the world, hard-workers of the world, is that nobody cares about how smart you are or how hard you work or how well you do your job. It’s all about whether or not people like you, and like having you around. If people find you likable and charming, if you know how to kiss ass you will always have a job, and always be a serious candidate for performance no matter what your level of competence.
Ambition is not about actually accomplishing anything meaningful, it is about bullshit. You climb the ladder by providing a social high to the people who have the power to advance you.
When people do not like you you are basically fucked. Nothing will get you more than the occasional pat on the back from the boss as you slave away in your dead-end job. The police will charge you for infractions where they might have let somebody else off, juries will vote to convict you even when the evidence does not prove your guilt, your wife will leave you, and your kids will fall in love with their step-dad and put you out of their minds.
Knowing how to charm people is like having a pocketful of crack in a roomful of addicts.
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