> It still blows my mind how dogmatic some people can be about things like this. I don't understand why anyone takes these things as gospel.
I love reading books for different perspectives.
However, I’ve come to despise people who read books and then try to lord their book knowledge over others. These are the people who think that they have the upper hand in every situation because they read some books. They almost always assume you haven’t read them. If you point out that you have also read them, they switch the subject to another set of books they read because they don’t like when someone tries to undermine their book knowledge superiority.
It’s even worse when the person reads books outside of their domain and tries to import that book knowledge into the workplace. The absolute worst manager I had was a guy who read a lot of pop-psychology books and then tried to psychoanalyze each of us according to those books.
I love reading books for different perspectives.
However, I’ve come to despise people who read books and then try to lord their book knowledge over others. These are the people who think that they have the upper hand in every situation because they read some books. They almost always assume you haven’t read them. If you point out that you have also read them, they switch the subject to another set of books they read because they don’t like when someone tries to undermine their book knowledge superiority.
It’s even worse when the person reads books outside of their domain and tries to import that book knowledge into the workplace. The absolute worst manager I had was a guy who read a lot of pop-psychology books and then tried to psychoanalyze each of us according to those books.