Ming's Guide To The Perplexed

It's finally come to this. You've run out of graduate degrees to pursue to stave off that hateful day that you have to actually begin earning a living. Some of you actually hope to succeed in a world that you'll be surprised to find doesn't care if you do or not. Worse yet, there are uncounted other wannabes out there willing to cheerfully, if not metaphorically, slit your dainty throat as you all scramble to knock each other off the corporate ladder.

Fear not. The one good thing you've managed to achieve in life is that you read Ming's blog. Ming will take you under his unwashed wing and cut through all the dross about ability, knowledge, hard work and all the other twaddle that counts for naught in order for you to succeed.

All you need do is inform all your actions with this one insight. Everyone, no matter how crusty their exterior, wants to be loved. Show your superordinates that you virtually worship them. That you think them wise, insightful and worthy of emulation.

Alright, that does usually take some acting given the run of the mill nincompoop that you'll be dealing with, but remember, we all act every day in every way anyway.

The saving grace, even should you not have mastered the Stanislavsky method is that people love it despite knowing it's blatant flattery. So take your cynical little sell out into that cold cruel world and spread the shmaltz with a heavy hand. Ming has spoken.