The Evil of Ill-Intentioned Empathy: When self-serving, faux compassion is more vice than virtue Compassion and empathy are virtues, but they can also be vices. How? What’s the difference? How do you know when your empathy is a virtue and when it’s a vice? Compassion and empathy can either be virtues or vices depending on their source, their drive, their motivation, and the place they come from. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/on-virtue Compassion and empathy are driven by…
How to Do Sales 2: The objective of sales The objective of an offering is to solve a problem, and the objective of sales is to see whether your offering can adequately address your prospect’s problem. Your job as a salesperson is to pinpoint that specific problem in that specific way it is being faced by your prospect. You must then clarify it, verbalise it, and make sure that your offering sufficiently addresses that problem, in all the ways — and only in those ways — that…
The dumbest objections against statelessness #14: "There would be more crime without government!" You’ve heard this baseless *ad-hoc* fallacy mantra before: “*There would be more crime without government!*” Really? How do you know that for a fact? Have you been able to prove this claim, since you have the burden of proof? Yes, **the non-existence of government is the default hypothesis**; the contrived existence of **centralised and arbitrarily authority-based government is…
How to Break Up: Escape the prison of fear and guilt to end it with dignity and respect Sometimes, guys know they want to break up with their significant other, but they just can’t get themselves to do it due to fear, embarrassment, and guilt. So they waste time pretending that everything’s OK while waiting for the “perfect moment” or the “perfect pretext” to initiate the breakup and feel “justified” in doing it. If this is you, please keep reading. This article is from the…
I don’t call you because... ...if you ever wondered why It’s not because I don’t care about you anymore. I don’t call you because I think of you too much. I don’t talk to you because I don’t feel worthy of you, and I don’t need another reminder. I’m tired of being a moth to your flame, condemned to the temptation of what I could never touch. I wouldn’t know what to say to you, anyway. What do you say to someone you don’t feel you measure up to, who deserves better than to…
Knowing When to Give Up: Toxic motivators and Sisyphean cults The aging rockstar… the short guy who hopes to one day make it in the NBA… the talentless, tone-deaf girl who imagines her flat voice makes her the next Céline Dion… the 50-year-old divorced guy who frequents nightclubs, obsessively hitting on 20-year-old students. These are examples of people **without situational or self-awareness**, those who refuse to let go of truly hopeless endeavours when they must.…
How to Know When to Give Up and When to Keep Going: Knowing yourself and managing expectations True self-awareness doesn’t always serve you. Life seems to favour the deludedly arrogant, the unwarrantedly confident. When a dishonest individual follows the self-delusion axiom “fake it ‘till you make it”, he creates false positive impressions on the impressionable masses; the simpletons around him confuse his faux confidence with supposed proof of value. From personal…
The Most Overlooked Leadership Quality: How to inspire loyalty and reverence as a leader A scroll down the toxic, fake positivity of LinkedIn will make you think that everyone’s an expert on leadership, as they presume to condescendingly announce to us with every passing minute “what true leadership is” or “what are the 7 characteristics of great leaders” or other vapid nonsense like that. For all their supposed “insight”, these charlatan “success gurus” miss the most…
Hitler Was Controlled Opposition: National socialism, the gateway to socialism All the Axis powers combined had neither the resources nor the manpower to take on the Allies — not even close. It’s basic mathematics. What lunatic would open multiple fronts at once, surrounded by enemies, cut off from resources, and take on the massive (both in population and land) juggernaut of the Soviet Union without accounting for winter? Even if Blitzkrieg was successful, the Axis powers…
True Blasphemy: How Your Faith Mocks Your God The ultimate blasphemy is to deem your creator so petty as to be offended by insignificant ol’ you, as to be captured by human insecurity and jealousy (by its own admission) when faced with your scepticism or lack of faith. How you dirty the concept of divinity by portraying it as petty and lowly as a frail human… You offend your god when you attribute to it **human inferiority complexes** and **spiteful pettiness**. You…
Why the West is NGMI #3: Soul-Shattering Cognitive Dissonance I won’t sugarcoat it with flashy academic babble in lieu of essence, or meaningless, needless jargon to impress the impressionable that would applaud anything: Western (European) cultures are dying because the joy in holding them has died. There is no reward, no meaning, no validation of values or identity in holding Western ideals. And this is why… For context, check ‘Why the West is NGMI’ #1 and #2, as well as…
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