Surrounded by Idiots

But the most important lesson that you can walk away with is that the idiots who surround you are, in fact, not idiots at all. Instead, they are individuals worthy of respect, understanding, and being valued.

It’s all about the mask you wear to fit into a given situation.

Yellows are very good communicators.

Reds are the ones who always believe they are surrounded by idiots.

The advantage for a Red is that he gets everything done his way. The disadvantage is obvious: everyone else feels controlled.

BEHAVIOR = f (P × Sf)

Behavior is a function of Personality and Surrounding factors.

Behavior is that which we can observe.

Personality is what we try to figure out.

Surrounding factors are things that we have an influence on

. Everything you say to a person is filtered through his frames of reference, biases, and preconceived ideas. What remains is ultimately the message that he understands. For many different reasons, he can interpret what you want to convey in a totally different way than you intended. What is actually understood will, naturally, vary depending on who you are speaking to, but it is very rare that the entire message gets through exactly as you conceived it in your mind

everyone else is wrong.

What I said fell on deaf ears

But really, there are no perfect human beings; no one is without faults or shortcomings.