Be funny or they will kill you.

"If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you."

~ Billy Wilder

Hahahaha. I like this quote.

It's one thing to know the truth.

It's another thing to tell the person (yourself/other people) the truth.

And it's an entirely different thing to act on the truth.

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That's one of the reasons why businesses want people who are good with people. People who can empathize and know how to say the right, persuasive, sometimes humorous words. People who can sort out the nuances in the situation.

Think:
that idiot who's just blind to how he hurt you and still think he's right.
the 'me' who's rather ashamed of myself sometimes
the inconvenient choices we had to make
the convenient, but not so good choices we make

We're human. So we've our strengths and weaknesses. It's not necessarily bad to be like this, but it's definitely good to improve for productivity's sake. The question is, at what cost? The cost of immense pain and loss of productivity that results from the brutally painful truth? Or at the cost of temporary pain from the seemingly-less-brutal truth?

Effectiveness and efficiency is important.

It's not just about career. It's also about moral/ethical/happiness growth too.

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2nd random note:

It's better to express whatever we think, with good intentions shown, and be wrong, than to shut up and let the situation be as it is. It's sometimes rather uncool, but whatever. See situation lah, then decide the strategy.

Hmm. I remember when I stopped speaking out often. That's when, my interest in the subject cooled down.