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karl says:

January 16, 2010 at 8:48 pm

Interesting because there is the other part of the interaction which is not analyzed. The talk is made about people (men, women) looking for a position (arrogant liar), not that much about the person in position of granting the position (the one listening, reading the arrogant liar).

I had to interview people and writing recommendation letters for others. In this position, self arrogant liars usually didn’t make it very far. I have also lived in Japan, where it is usually perceived as a bad quality to be self-promoting. In all this discussion, it seems there might be a cultural bias from North-America. “Being successful”, “Taking risks” are not necessary good criteria to get what you want. It might have been successful for some people and kind of self-validating that “being arrogant works” when they didn’t get the positions where arrogance was perceived as a bad quality. It sounds like self-selection of communities, more than a rule.