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Re:Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young by cortesoft on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @07:27PM (#19793041)
No one is saying that is all you need. Being pleasant is necessary, but not sufficient, for succeeding in life.
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Re:Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young by icebraining on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @09:04PM (#19793616)
> Being pleasant is necessary

Being able to be pleasant is necessary. Being generally pleasant, I would argue, is not.

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Re:Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young by jfk13 on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @09:00AM (#19796617)
Depending on your definition of "succeeding in life", I'm not sure this is true. The current leaders of various countries, such as the USA or Russia, are arguably counter-examples: they don't seem to me to be pleasant people, yet by most standards they could be said to have achieved success in life.
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