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Re: The Best Article Ever Written About Bragging

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Why does everyone ask questions they know the answer to?

Hey, some of us truly clueless people have no idea. Like I'd been searching for years for an article to explain to me why people get emotional, as there seemed to be no utility for it to me. Finally someone posted a couple to HN that finally explained to me, and I appreciated it.

Take it from a socially clueless person, some of us don't know the answers to these questions. :)

Re: The Best Article Ever Written About Bragging

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The unfortunate reality is that if you don’t sing your own praises, you will miss out on opportunities in life. Most people don’t have the time to really pay attention to what you’re doing (bosses, interviewers, dating interests, etc), so you have to make them aware - or you’re just off in the corner being unseen.

Re: The Best Article Ever Written About Bragging

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post #11
post #8

Why does everyone ask questions they know the answer to?

Hey, some of us truly clueless people have no idea. Like I'd been searching for years for an article to explain to me why people get emotional, as there seemed to be no utility for it to me. Finally someone posted a couple to HN that finally explained to me, and I appreciated it. Take it from a socially clueless person, some of us don't know the answers to these questions. :)

> I'd been searching for years for an article to explain to me why people get emotional, as there seemed to be no utility for it to me. Finally someone posted a couple to HN that finally explained to me, and I appreciated it.

That sounds interesting, would you have the links handy? :)

Re: The Best Article Ever Written About Bragging

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post #11
post #8

Why does everyone ask questions they know the answer to?

Hey, some of us truly clueless people have no idea. Like I'd been searching for years for an article to explain to me why people get emotional, as there seemed to be no utility for it to me. Finally someone posted a couple to HN that finally explained to me, and I appreciated it. Take it from a socially clueless person, some of us don't know the answers to these questions. :)

Calm down.

Re: The Best Article Ever Written About Bragging

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The unfortunate reality is that if you don’t sing your own praises, you will miss out on opportunities in life. Most people don’t have the time to really pay attention to what you’re doing (bosses, interviewers, dating interests, etc), so you have to make them aware - or you’re just off in the corner being unseen.

Or you have to be so good that nobody can ignore you.

Re: The Best Article Ever Written About Bragging

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The unfortunate reality is that if you don’t sing your own praises, you will miss out on opportunities in life. Most people don’t have the time to really pay attention to what you’re doing (bosses, interviewers, dating interests, etc), so you have to make them aware - or you’re just off in the corner being unseen.

This. Had a colleague who kept telling everyone how good he was doing. He started at the same time a lot of us did but got promoted extremely quickly.

Re: The Best Article Ever Written About Bragging

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, some of us truly clueless people have no idea. Like I'd been searching for years for an article to explain to me why people get emotional, as there seemed to be no utility for it to me. Finally someone posted a couple to HN that finally explained to me, and I appreciated it. Take it from a socially clueless person, some of us don't know the answers to these questions. :)

> I'd been searching for years for an article to explain to me why people get emotional, as there seemed to be no utility for it to me. Finally someone posted a couple to HN that finally explained to me, and I appreciated it. That sounds interesting, would you have the links handy? :)

Articles listed in order of what I felt was most educational, useful, and enlightening, with most educational at the top:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17493303

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15356760

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12885356

edit: Interesting, the most useful article for me is also the newest. I guess I'd been dissatisfied with articles I found for a long time. :)

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