Brag About Your Career!
The most difficult thing to do here in this planet is probably not to commit suicide, nor to live plainly, nor to get rich, but rather, to find something one can brag about. No matter how a person would skew the angles, others would only have the same opinion about bragging—it is comparable to someone burying his or herself neck deep in mud.
Try making up a situation just to test the conclusion above. For example, you are an old man who just can’t keep up with the energy that is required in producing corn. So you decided to test your luck by digging gold just a few steps away outside your house. You were digging and digging. And you’re clothes are already full of soil, and you feel the soil caking in your arms. You smell yourself and you remember what the surroundings smelled like when your wife was buried after dying of AIDS. And it seems you’re only digging your own grave until…
Oil started gushing from underground. What would you do if you happen to discover oil in your town? Would you brag about it?
Surely, once you brag about it, or even just by letting other people you know in the intention of informing them good news, people will immediately think that your next move is to have a monopolized control over oil. And they wouldn’t want that. If you won’t speak anything about it, your discovery would be useless.
So, you are trapped between talking and keeping your mouth shut. This is why to brag is very difficult. But that doesn’t mean you can’t. Show everyone your pride. Wear sterling silver cufflinks that would symbolize your newfound prosperity. Career related cufflinks like oil derrick cufflinks would make anyone bow to you. You wouldn’t even care to say anything!