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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday October 10 2017, @04:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the stay-out-of-politics dept.

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


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @01:30PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @01:30PM (#579762)

    You lost. Get over it.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by SpockLogic on Tuesday October 10 2017, @01:39PM

    by SpockLogic (2762) on Tuesday October 10 2017, @01:39PM (#579768)

    You lost. Get over it.

    No America lost. Sad.

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  • (Score: 2) by DutchUncle on Tuesday October 10 2017, @02:26PM (1 child)

    by DutchUncle (5370) on Tuesday October 10 2017, @02:26PM (#579812)

    I notice nobody says that in sports. It's usually more like "You lost. Do better next time." or "We're gonna run that play again until we get it right."

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Tuesday October 10 2017, @05:16PM

      by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday October 10 2017, @05:16PM (#579903)

      That might have something to do with the fact that sports games, unlike wars, have no real consequences to anybody.

      And the American Civil War is definitely not something I would want to see re-run. Not just because of the senseless waste of human life involved, but also because the South was wrong, those nostalgic about the South are wrong, and the idea of white supremacy is wrong.

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