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The world is full of assholes. Wherever you live, whatever you do, odds are you're surrounded by assholes. The question is, what to do about it?
Robert Sutton, a psychology professor at Stanford University, has stepped up to answer this eternal question. He's the author of a new book, The Asshole Survival Guide, which is basically what it sounds like: a guide for surviving the assholes in your life.
In 2010, Sutton published The No Asshole Rule, which focused on dealing with assholes at an organizational level. In the new book, he offers a blueprint for managing assholes at the interpersonal level. If you've got an asshole boss, an asshole friend, or an asshole colleague, this book might be for you.
Asshole survival, Sutton says, is a craft, not a science, meaning one can be good or bad at it. His book is about getting better at it.
I sat down with him recently to talk about his strategies for dealing with assholes, what he means when he says we have to take responsibility for the assholes in our lives, and why he says self-awareness is key to recognizing that the asshole in your life may be you.
https://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/9/26/16345476/stanford-psychologist-art-of-avoiding-assholes
(Score: 5, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday October 10 2017, @05:19AM (10 children)
Something has happened to Eth of late. He is making sense. At least two insightful and coherent posts in the last twenty-four hours! The best was
https://soylentnews.org/politics/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=21952&page=1&cid=578981#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
The Asshole Fairy explains so, so much in this present world.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Fnord666 on Tuesday October 10 2017, @05:37AM (3 children)
Even a stopped clock is ... oh you know the rest.
(Score: 3, Funny) by coolgopher on Tuesday October 10 2017, @05:45AM (2 children)
...an asshole?
I think you're making less sense than Eth now, Fnord ;)
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday October 10 2017, @06:34AM
What really worries me is that it may not be Eth that has changed, which would mean that it is me, then? Being John Malkovich, only with Eth: American Horror Show?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Fnord666 on Tuesday October 10 2017, @01:12PM
Isn't the first time, won't be the last.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @08:39AM (2 children)
That is not where the Asshole Fairy touches you. Hint: she wears latex gloves for a reason.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @01:37PM (1 child)
"She" wears latex on "her" wand too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @04:54PM
Well as least she's not an asshole! Or does she slip it off 1/2 way through without telling you?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday October 10 2017, @01:54PM (1 child)
I've noticed that too. It's direct evidence for how close we are to the singularity now, that the arc of the universe has bent so much. The next and final sign will be when jmorris zooms to the left of you.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday October 10 2017, @10:04PM
He is so far to the right of me, that I might have to move to a bigger planet soon.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @02:03PM
> Since you are now an asshole, everything you say is null and void and I will ignore you from now on no matter what you say.
That is more or less the premise of that "no assholes" book. I had a boss who encouraged everyone to buy a copy of that and used that philosophy on anyone who disagreed with him to ignore them. He was a real asshole.