Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®

Wowsers


Listen Later

You’ve known wowsers. They’re always trying to be the “second smartest person in the room,” and they correct you even though you’re correct to begin with.
They are official “killjoys.” They are critical of others’ pleasures and accomplishments. Lacking expertise doesn’t inhibit their critiques and corrections. They never converse; they lecture as perpetual professors. They’re distraught if they think someone else is having a better time than they are (and most people are).
Wowsers are dismissive according to their own biased criteria. “You smoke cigars, so you don’t make good life choices, so your opinion on the climate is flawed.” For them, everything they do is the best, no matter what: The trip was the most thrilling, the play was the most sensational, the restaurant was seven stars, and the restroom was the cleanest.
They announce awards and honorifics no matter how transparently unimportant they are. “I’ve been named as most likely to write my first book within four years in my zip code.”
Knowing next to nothing, they are cynical and cite memes and fragments of others’ expertise: “Well, consider the ‘establishment clause,’” “They might invoke the 27th Amendment….” These are the people who scream, “Get in the hole!” after every golf shot and call into the tournament if they spot a violation on TV.
They call people over to the bar to have drinks and then disappear before the bill arrives. You know who I’m talking about.
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®By Alan Weiss

  • 4.4
  • 4.4
  • 4.4
  • 4.4
  • 4.4

4.4

43 ratings


More shows like Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®

View all
a16z Podcast by Andreessen Horowitz

a16z Podcast

1,082 Listeners

The GaryVee Audio Experience by Gary Vaynerchuk

The GaryVee Audio Experience

16,808 Listeners

The Knowledge Project by Shane Parrish

The Knowledge Project

2,670 Listeners

Getting Things Done by GTD®

Getting Things Done

455 Listeners

The Ben Shapiro Show by The Daily Wire

The Ben Shapiro Show

155,453 Listeners

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory by Impact Theory

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

4,706 Listeners

The Game with Alex Hormozi by Alex Hormozi

The Game with Alex Hormozi

4,383 Listeners

Worklife with Adam Grant by TED

Worklife with Adam Grant

9,191 Listeners

My First Million by Hubspot Media

My First Million

2,655 Listeners

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg by All-In Podcast, LLC

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

9,790 Listeners

The TreppWire Podcast: A Commercial Real Estate Show by The TreppWire Podcast, A CRE Show

The TreppWire Podcast: A Commercial Real Estate Show

216 Listeners

Deep Questions with Cal Newport by Cal Newport

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

1,315 Listeners

The Megyn Kelly Show by SiriusXM

The Megyn Kelly Show

40,693 Listeners

Morning Wire by The Daily Wire

Morning Wire

26,673 Listeners

ACQ2 by Acquired by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

ACQ2 by Acquired

265 Listeners