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It's incredibly tiresome in a group, when you can't even bring up a random side thought without people going crazy about it.

Especially once you start to notice they don't quite mean it but just like "being part" of the conversation by drowning it out in praises, to hear their own voice, which is natural, and all very sweet and positive, but it's not very constructive.

It might seem motivating at first, the praise to urge the other guy to continue like that, but at some point it becomes laziness, because you're not adding anything to the conversation or thinking for yourself, just going "yeah yeah great awesome!" and you're not being useful at all, anymore.

It's kind of a bit like what Douglas Adams said, "if their mouths stop moving, their brains might start working".



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