The Real Reason Jerks Get Ahead In Life
Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman
Ramsey Network
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up, how to play the office game and win without looking like a jerk. |
| 0:12.0 | And then nearly half of workers have more than one full-time job. |
| 0:17.0 | Wow, we'll break that down as so much more, let's go. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to the Kid Colman show where we help you win at work so that you can win in life. |
| 0:32.0 | That's right, if you're winning at work, you got a great shot of winning in other areas of your life, the opposite is true. |
| 0:38.0 | If you're losing at work, it's going to affect you in life. |
| 0:42.0 | Alright, let's talk about this all-important game, right? |
| 0:46.0 | It's a game and if you don't want to play it, that's fine. |
| 0:50.0 | But let's be honest, you need to play it. |
| 0:52.0 | You want to win at work, you got to play the game. |
| 0:55.0 | And so let's look at this old adage of nice guys finish last. |
| 1:01.0 | You've ever heard of that before? |
| 1:03.0 | So that implies that jerks win. |
| 1:06.0 | But if you look at the world, let's look down on the world for a moment. |
| 1:11.0 | You might agree with that statement that nice guys finish last because jerks seemingly, they win a lot. |
| 1:20.0 | So let's dive into this. |
| 1:23.0 | The research actually backs that conclusion up sort of. |
| 1:29.0 | Harvard Business Review found that men with a low level of agreeableness, in other words jerks, |
| 1:38.0 | make as much as $10,000 a year more than men who have a high level of agreeableness. |
| 1:43.0 | In other words, nice guys. |
| 1:46.0 | So what is second? |
| 1:49.0 | Why is it that this data exists? |
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