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It's important to have a good culture fit. This was one reason why, post-Brexit, I went to Germany rather than the US: I prefer unvarnished truth if I can get it, and failing that people telling me what I did wrong instead of puffing up my ego by telling me everything is amazing when they think it's rubbish*.

But accounting for that, too, is part of persuasion — even if it's not on this list.

* there's a set of graphs I can't find, objective quality on the x-axis, bell curves, vertical lines drawn in different places for each country, US labelling everything that's better than terrible as "amazing" and vice-versa for eastern Europe.






I believe these are the graphs you're referring to: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/Wc1mmTci0H

Yup, that's them.

Also, can confirm the British graph. When I presented with testicular torsion and the doctor asked how I was doing…


And on top of that, when you are doing 'rubbish', and not told, you dont have a chance to rectify things through that honest feedback.



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