‘Tis a strange experience, being an expert in my field, surrounded by people who are beginners, however, these beginners act and feel as though they are superior to me! The, “Dunning Krueger affect,” comes to mind.
I will not chalk it up to saying, “They are simply ignorant, so have compassion for their immaturity,” because they purposely create a toxic work environment. Any psychologist can resolve that these people are acting-out aggressively as the result to their (conscious, or intuitive, knowledge of their) own inadequacies.
It is a waste of journalism to describe the everyday instances where their petty, selfish stupidity interferes with the success of the business. There is a higher level of thinking to exercise. There is a better way to live; there are smarter ways to conduct ourselves. There are ideas which we cannot even begin to ask if they exist. There is a smarter human being on the other side, and those who choose to be stupid are only looking into a foggy mirror, and shall never be worthy of breaking through to see the other side. Should we investigate this stupidity? … No. May we point this stupidity out with the purpose of teaching the younger generation about these people? We MUST! We must point them out, if not to hold them accountable, but to entertain our own intellect, for it is a muscle that needs both exercise and humor!
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Staying Inside The Box
… because they purposely create a toxic work environment…