Honor Truth (or What You Don’t Know That Can Hurt Your Career)
Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
— C.S. Lewis
The world is full of truths that can help you advance your career—yet often those truths aren’t taught in school. They may not have been taught at home, either, if the parents didn’t know these truths themselves. Tidbits such as how to have a perfect handshake or how to take a $99 jacket to a tailor to get a fit that makes it look like you spent $1000 are all but lost in the dust of today’s large corporations. Yet they still matter.
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