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“When you are alone in the wilderness, opinions or beliefs of any kind are dropped as the absurd accoutrements they are. But after being in the wilderness for a while, you may come around to feeling sociable. Maybe you could try living in a community of “like-minded” social deviants. However, they had better be so alike that they are clones of one another or the day will come when someone steps over the line and factions begin to teem. Our brains will always discriminate—that is their nature. They fix on superficial differences we spy in one another, redundantly speaking, since all differences among us are superficial.”

Book:The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

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Thomas Ligotti

Thomas Ligotti, born on July 9, 1953, is an American author known for his surrealistic and existentialist themes that explore the absurdity and despair of human existence. His distinctive writing style has earned him a dedicated following among readers. more

“Models of leader attributes that dominated in the early part of the 20th century emphasized leader traits. Several surveys and reviews of this literature identified a number of dispositional qualities that distinguished leaders from nonleaders, including intelligence, originality, dependability, initiative, desire to excel, sociability, adaptability, extroversion, and dominance. However, no single personal quality was strongly and consistently correlated with leadership.”

Leadership Initiative Dominance Adaptability Sociability Extroversion

Book:Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

Source: Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

“Bernard Shaw is an excellent man; he has not an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.”

Virtue Sociability

Book:The Wit of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Wit of Oscar Wilde

“[Networking] feels fake because we know it involves the deflection of our natural human sociability to an ulterior end. Normally we meet strangers in the expectation that they may truly be strange, and are drawn to the multilayered mystery that each human presents. But in networking, as in prostitution, there is no time for fascination. The networker is always, so to speak, looking over the shoulder of the person she engages in conversation, toward whatever concrete advantage can be gleaned from the interaction—a tip or a precious contact.”

Interest Conversation Connection Networking Sociability Advantages Job Hunting

Book:Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

Source: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream