696: How to Separate Truth from Bullsh*t for Smarter Decisions with John V. Petrocelli
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What Is Beessing?
Bessing is when people communicate about things that they know little to nothing about, and in which they have no regard or concern for what we would call truth. The behavior of beessing is often characterized by a wide range of rhetorical strategies designed to communicate without any regard for truth evidence or established knowledge. It may come out in the form of exaggerating one's competence, or their knowledge or their skills in a domain. Or it may come out as trying to impress others, fit in with others, influence or persuade them, or to embellish, or to confuse, or to simply hide the fact that they really don't know what they're talking about. And i'm convinced there are lots
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