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Re: Unexpected skills
Reply #15 - Feb 20^th, 2021 at 7:45pm

Morphy wrote on Feb 20^th, 2021 at 9:43am:

The hardest thing Ive found about the whole thing is swallowing your own pride and never revealing this stuff to anyone. Or else then you lose much of your advantage.

True. It's the "YES, they're underestimating me, that could be a vital advantage... dammit I'm tired people thinking I'm incapable"

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Re: Unexpected skills
Reply #16 - Feb 20^th, 2021 at 8:06pm

perpetualstudent wrote on Feb 20^th, 2021 at 7:45pm:

Morphy wrote on Feb 20^th, 2021 at 9:43am:

The hardest thing Ive found about the whole thing is swallowing your own pride and never revealing this stuff to anyone. Or else then you lose much of your advantage.

True. It's the "YES, they're underestimating me, that could be a vital advantage... dammit I'm tired people thinking I'm incapable"

A very fine line actually. Im not a stupid person PS. No where near your level but im not dumb. Its a balancing act between being me and being the person they need to see. But its fun.

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Reply #17 - Feb 21^st, 2021 at 9:37am

It is a balancing act for sure. Whether you're using it to opt out of politics, avoid hustling, avoid stupid fights, I think it always chafes a bit. There's a reason we have Ulysses yelling at the Cyclops "Ulysses did this to you!" when he otherwise would have gotten away clean. The voice of ego is strong.

Looking at it as "what this person needs to see" is a good way of thinking of it.

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