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Stop Being a Complainer

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

How to Compliment the Opposite

Will Bowen: When you see someone complaining to inspire envy, they're doing the humble brag type thing. He says people complain about anything and everything is a way of trying to make themselves look better. The more people we get on our side in any given circumstances, the more power we have because people represent power,. All social media is based on complaining for power. And so lastly, that plays into the media. So people complain for power.

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