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[jaerik]

We're doing serious damage to our kids by teaching them the abject fantasy that other people's opinions don't matter. Success in life is actually primarily driven by other people's opinions, whether that's from customers, voters, your manager, friends, whatever. You will get nowhere in life if you think you're completely awesome but everyone else

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[hooli]

If I could Like this post, I would.

[jaerik]

If Facebook continues to take over the world, soon you may be able to! >

[hooli]

I'm not sure I like the idea of Facebook being connected to everything though. D:

[jaerik]

Your apprehension is shared. =p

[jaerik]

Same.

[logan607]

Holy snoikers, I could not agree more and this was going to be the topic of a post I had planned (well, that and my last two posts).

[jaerik]

Feel free to re-use it for your own blog subject if you want.

[masterninja66]

Did you have to fire someone? It sounds like there is a very specific incident motivating this post.

[jaerik]

Something like that, although I probably shouldn't talk about it in public.

[jaerik]

The unassailability of the opinion is another problem. People use it both to duck responsibility (as in your example) and also to push false egalitarianism, i.e. "that's just your opinion, which is no more valuable than mine."