Re:Rehabilitating the Arrogant Engineer (2012)
by wolfgke on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @04:26PM
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> Could you provide some examples of times when being arrogant improved the quality of the product you delivered?
Being arrogant and being perceived by other people as arrogant are two completely unrelated pairs of shoes.
I personally would assume that many "nerds", for a lack of "social fluency" (I want to avoid the term "social skills", since in my experience they are not socially "unskilled", but rather think differently from many other people, which makes them often act somewhat clumsily), are perceived as arrogant, while they actually are not. On the other hand, I observe that many people who play the "acting humbly" game are actually deep inside quite arrogant and narcistic.
Being arrogant and being perceived by other people as arrogant are two completely unrelated pairs of shoes.
I personally would assume that many "nerds", for a lack of "social fluency" (I want to avoid the term "social skills", since in my experience they are not socially "unskilled", but rather think differently from many other people, which makes them often act somewhat clumsily), are perceived as arrogant, while they actually are not. On the other hand, I observe that many people who play the "acting humbly" game are actually deep inside quite arrogant and narcistic.