A Life Free of Professional Bullshitters
A Life Free of Professional Bullshitters They only bullshit because they're some of the most insecure people on the planet. The research actually backs that up. Short version: The people who bullshit most confidently aren't the most competent, they're often the least self-aware about their own limits, and research links frequent bullshitting directly to narcissistic traits. Confidence and competence are being sold to you as the same thing constantly, and they're not. Once you stop mistaking a good performance for a good answer, the professional bullshitters lose most of their power over you. Why they do it Recent research on bullshit detection found something genuinely telling: people who are least able to spot nonsense tend to overestimate their own competence the most, and separately, frequent bullshitting was more strongly linked to narcissistic and Machiavellian traits than to actual detection skill. In plain terms: the people bullshitting hardest u...