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The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in a World That Won’t Stop Talking

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

How to Avoid Overtalkers in the Workplace

A talkaholic is someone who knows that the thing they're about to say will hurt them and will say it anyway. Talkaholics are often seen as great and you like them at first, but after a while people start to want to escape them. People really start to resent them to the point where here's another interesting thing: If you ask them early on, is that person intelligent? They'll say yeah, highly intelligent. You ask them later about the same person and their estimate of that person's intelligence has actually gone down.

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