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... Most [People] assume that [Stress] is today's times is normal ... https://twitter.com/bkshivani/status/1550643104025305090 .. [Best] The new silent majority: People who don't tweet - https://www.axios.com/political-polarization-twitter-cable-news-ac9699c6-260d-4141-b511-5c7193566ea1.html Most people you meet in everyday life — at work, in the neighborhood — are decent and normal. Even nice. But hit Twitter or watch the news, and you'd think we were all nuts and nasty. Why it matters: The rising power and prominence of the nation's loudest, meanest voices obscures what most of us personally experience: Most people are sane and generous — and too busy to tweet. ---- People who do exceptional work are often anti-charismatic; they can’t talk to strangers, don’t understand social cues and usually prefer to be alone. https://x.com/adamshuaib/status/2069890117456552206 * Across 5000+ meetings, we interviewed a CEO who hid in a stairwell for an hour at his own launch party because the chit-chat was unbearable, and a scientist who ate lunch in his car for years rather than in the cafeteria. There was also a senior researcher who took 6 flights of stairs rather than the elevator to avoid conversations with colleagues. * This group spent most of their lives being told to be more friendly or social and more present, but a person that finds small talk difficult usually has a mind that is focused on bigger problems to solve. Society tries so hard to teach brilliant people to be normal that it risks losing the quirks that made them brilliant in the first place. ---- [Normal Person] {tags: Etc}
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