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Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalk · 4:03

The God Complex at work?

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The car won't move forward. So somewhere somebody has to play the cog in the wheel and that's just perfectly fine. Yet if you play the cog in the wheel kind of a role, then you become one of many. And so being assertive is something that makes you grow, move forward, be counted. And in the process of being assertive and raising your hand in the sun, separating your identity from the rest of the crowd, that's what the system asks you to do

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Arish Ali
@arish · 4:24
I think it is not that the person is incompetent and doesn't have ability. It's just a matter of lack of ability to communicate. So that's what I think about this. And I think the best antidote to that really is company culture. If you build a culture where people are allowed to speak up their mind and come up with their own ideas and still the best decisions taken by the person in the party because of it is the best decision, not because of the force of the authority
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@SeekingPlumb

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I may not like what I hear or may not like what I've observed, but after that, after I can move past the emotional response. There are gems there anyway. I don't know if this necessarily answers your question, and I think it's harder when you're talking about an environment with a career where there's a lot of social expectations, cultural expectations, and I don't know, some of the things that exist in those spaces I don't understand
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Subhash Bhaskaran
@Subhashcoach · 0:05
I in this a great conversation to hear. Thank you
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Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalk · 4:32
Good thoughts. Let me see if I can give you something to think about. The two sides, two parts, two or the two responses to your, your observation to yourself. Number one is the ability to articulate. And number two leaders where they hear you out and therefore try and convince you. Those are the two parts that you mentioned
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Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalk · 3:15

@SeekingPlumb

It could be friends, family, people that, you know, acquaintances everywhere and it's to do with their understanding of life, their belief system and the set of people surrounding them sometimes aid to that belief system because there is this dominant and subservient equation in many relationships where people oftentimes don't get into any argument fearing a showdown, fearing scenes become like a big fracture and all that. And so it's better to keep quiet
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Dharthi Chipalkatti
@dharthiiii · 0:59
Hey, thank you so much for, you know, educating people on this. So first of all, this is the first time that I heard of it. Like, obviously, like, we know the situation happened, but I didn't really know that there was a particular term for it in particular, you know, thing that it's actually called. So, yeah, thank you so much for that. And I'm really grateful that I don't really have anybody like that
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 3:54
But it's just getting bigger the more you stamp on it. So, yeah, those with the Godcomp complex, I have sympathy a bit for them more than anything. They're funny in movies and stuff, but in real life it's just bizarre, to say the least. But yeah, those are just some of my musings and thoughts. It's on the matter
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Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 4:29

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So, yes, I think God Complex doesn't just happen in the absence of power, it happens as a result of it. So if one wants to exceed in their career with the God Complex, or maybe aspire to the God Complex, good communication skills, I think is my answer. Because there are so many people, I mean, I suspect they have a God Complex, but I can't say for sure because knowing someone and working with someone are two different things
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Arish Ali
@arish · 5:00

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Hi. Aayan. So to answer first your question about the two approaches, the empathetic approach versus the more dictatorial approach. In my experience, they are not mutually exclusive. The best managers and leaders have a had the privilege to work with. They are people who earn the respect of their team because they have already done stuff through their own kind of track record and execution and past history just having to work with that team. The team trust that person. The person knows what they're talking about
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Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalk · 2:29

@dharthiiii

Given the fact that we are largely a patriarchal society, these kind of things happen as well. But I'd urge you to exercise caution and not jump into bracketing somebody as someone with a God complex. But yeah, it's always good to study, observe people and the best thing that anybody can recommend in terms of mental evolution is to listen for first, observe first before reacting. So I'm so glad that you took the time to listen to it and I hope I can share some more thoughts
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Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalk · 3:38
And fascinatingly enough, some of these folks who are kind of most certainly have a God complex often have a very strong logic behind it. Why are the way they are and why did they become like this? And there's a story to it. And sometimes when you sit down and listen to the story you are like what would you have done differently? Of course you would have done something differently. That's why you have the rational mind
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Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalk · 4:41
So if I deliver these five things, that equals a good job done. If I deliver two things of them, that's a bad job done. I'm simplifying it. I hope you get just to highlight the point, right? So it really doesn't matter what I thought about or did, I respect the leadership or not. It really is independent of that and the reverse of it as well
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Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalk · 4:23
But what I do sense is when they transcend into God complex from being a rational human being initially my sense is they don't realize it. It kind of flips over like over the period of time very unassumingly. It just happens and by the time they realize that it perhaps is too late
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@Binati_Sheth
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 1:38

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But then in retrospect, I think probably because they are not used to being questioned, given the kind of privilege they are used to, given the kind of victories that they have had, they just presume that they are right always. And probably that becomes the default setting which leads to the court complex. Maybe it is not intentional, but definitely seems that way. So yeah, I've been looking into it. Hopefully I understand it in a few more days
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Arish Ali
@arish · 2:38

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I'm still trying to kind of understand across this scenario where people are in a team, in a group where they are professional with each other, but there are some people who are behaving in a way which you would say have got complex. So the question is, how do you deal with them? Is that maybe I'm just confused here. I'd love more clarity. What exactly is the situation that you're trying? I think we've gone to a very abstract discussion
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Dharthi Chipalkatti
@dharthiiii · 0:39
Yes, yes. I completely understand the importance of what you're trying to say because I studied psychology. I'm doing my Masters in psychology, and I've been studying the subject for, like, seven years
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