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Being a brick wall, unmovable to the machinations of conniving greedsters and manipulators, is one of the most important aspects of being a success, both in life and in the world of cut-throat politics and corporations. I have never been one to toot my own horn, but I am unmovable by manipulative tactics (unless of course they are mild, and from my loving girlfriend. But most men are at least somewhat susceptible to the tears of their significant others) and I am proud of my life-long determination to get ahead, however not at the cost of other people.

And to get ahead, you must not be a doormat. You cannot bend to the will of other people whose only intent is to glean from you some little amount of humanity or charitably to achieve their own ends. The thing that makes people say "yes" instead of the "no" they truly wish their mouths could produce is because of the over-riding presence of fear most people feel. A fear of what others will think of them. But this is not a concern of mine, in any way more than to get ahead.
You dress in a suit when you go to a job interview because you want to get the job, and you want your employers to think you are a professional. In that case it is logical to care what they think. But when it comes to doing favors for people you don't want to do favors for, or just favors you don't want to do in general, I do what I want, and if I say "yes" it is because I want to. Not because I'm scared they wont like me.

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