Are you looking look down on other people?

Egotrip is a punishment for those who have it. Let's suppose you are an educated person, a geek, young and ambitious and the world is under your feet. At least, you are thinking so. You might think you have perks to look down on others.

The moment you underestimate your competition is your weak moment. This is a game between David and Goliath, and the strongest will not always win.

If you are a man, a woman can beat you.

If you are pretty, a less attractive woman can steal your man.

If you are young, older competition can beat you.

You can never know what kind of card someone holds in their pocket.

If you have a sword, be careful at the moment when you use that word, it can turn against you.

Forgiveness is not always a value. Not everyone will forget and forgive what you did to them. Karma and paycheck are bad guys who will hit you from the corner when you don't expect this.

Everyone has a boiling point, be careful where you are standing.

Someone doesn't like mockery.

Someone is protecting their family.

Someone had a hard life, and he will not show mercy when you hit him.

There are some rules in communication with people.

Don't look at others from heights.

Don't mock grammar errors, this is a weak argument.

If you provoke someone, be sure the person will hit you back.

Be careful do you hit a person who has powerful connections.

Ignorance is good for negative people, but not for friends and business connections.

Comments

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I understand someone can be disappointed with a book. It is like I was disapointed with my trousers online and returned it. What makes a difference, my trousers were 40 euros. The book was 2.49 cents. This makes return funny, because what can you do with this money? Some readers don't understand story behind the refund. The author will get minus royalties. - 0.13 c in my Kindle report, that will vanish when someone else buy the book. The situation happens. Someone accidentaly clicked and bought a book. A random customer wants a refund. Maybe it was not a random move. Maybe the customer clicked, bought and did not like the book. When you don't like the book choose another options, instead of damaging authors. Write a negative review. Write negative one star rating. Don't purchase another books from this author. Or, maybe to reconsider and read it, again? If you write negative reviews or rate it with 1 or 2 stars, you are making a favor to authors. You are moving algorithms i...

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