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3 days agoPsychology says the reason boomers who can dish it but can't take it become more fragile with age rather than less isn't that they've grown weaker - it's that every decade of unchallenged authority makes the first real challenge feel not like a correction but like a collapse, and the response to collapse is never proportionate to the thing that caused it - Silicon Canals
Long-term authority positions create isolation from honest feedback, causing leaders to become brittle and unable to handle challenges to their decisions.