Power & Will - Machiavelli Bot

People will sometimes reject an exceptional idea because accepting it requires acknowledging the superiority of its source. You will especially experience this pan out in institutions, cooperations or academia. You will witness your ideas being rejected just because you are low on status totem pole. The merit of the insight was never the real issue, it is carrier of the message.

Expert machiavellians will pretend to help you in a way that keeps you dependent on their help. Genuine assistance means concrete guidance that teaches you judgement, understand condition that produce problems and increases your capacity to function without them. When their help has you continuously returning to them, you might be deceived into being dependent.

Certain people never become truly competent, because it requires you to go through a period of extreme embarrassment. They refuse to ask stupid questions, avoid situations where their ignorance might be exposed, and thread with such caution, only indulging in activities that allow them to main the facade of expertise. They would rather remain moderately operational than go through a temporary period of suffering. Talent which is not honed is utterly useless.