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All my life, it’s been this way.

Every time I take CREDIT and rightfully so for something good I’ve done, I’ve gotten blowback.

How dare I take credit – or get any.

How dare I not shut up and “let others get all the credit”.

More than all of that “who does he think he is!”

“If he’s good, he better keep his trap shut and NOT let others know!”.

HA!

x10000.

And while some of this affected me to a degree growing up, it never really took hold (the thought).

Hence, yours truly maverick thats achieved and done precisely what I wanted to – not the goals the Bozos of any nature, shape or form set for me.

Anyway … just saw the following idiotic virtue signaling post on Shanked-In . . .

Growing up my mother always instilled in me lessons of humility and modesty.

As a kid I used to remember distinctively adults on TV talking themselves up as an “expert” or boasting about how successful they were, and I always wondered “Why can’t people just be modest?”.

Now as an adult (in marketing! the least modest profession!) I see bragging SEEMS to work, and across professions and platforms, people are bragging all the time (Listening to Clubhouse am I the only one eye rolling constantly?)

Even on LinkedIn it’s “expert” this, “expert” that, but I feel it makes you look like a jerk, and I’ve been instinctively avoiding jerks since I can remember.

BUT simultaneously I realise that downplaying my capabilities and achievements just doesn’t work, eg:

“I’m in marketing” doesn’t have the same effect as “I own a marketing firm”,

“We increased revenues for a client” doesn’t sound the same as “We increased our client revenues by 1.5 million rmb in 3 months”

So my question is, how do you, as a professional or a marketeer, stay humble but also let the right people know about your achievements and capabilities?

While this may seem like a decent enough question, and indeed it would be if the VIBE coming off it was not a wailing sort of vibe (woe betide me) like attracts like.

The entire post smacks of UNDERACHIEVING, not achieving.

And bragging about the former, not the latter.

Strangely enough!

Or maybe not, the post attracted a comment from a certain Chloe Lee that I’ve written about before.

I think your delivery and the situation also makes a difference. Like if you’re casually talking to someone at a networking event, saying “I’m in marketing” will do. But if it’s at certain situation where your expertise is important you can state some facts (achievement) in a calm tone and minus the adjectives like “awesome” “excellent” etc, and use more “we” instead of “I”!

Yet another WHINING post, and another reason why I avoid most social media like the veritable plague from China.

Social media is a MORASS – and becoming even whinier by the day.

Lets see, if you did something, what exactly is wrong with getting CREDIT and all the credit you deserve for it?

If you are a PIONEER at something – then thats how it is, my friend.

There’s nothing wrong about telling others about your achievement – once you DO it.

I’ve made NO bones about the fact I’m a pioneer when it comes to fitness, and many other things too.

I’ve even named a BOOK “Fitness Pioneer” (that the idiots trolled, which is great. Carry on brother matey, hehe).

I’ve made NO bones of the fact that my fitness routines are by far the most comprehensive, tough and best out there.

I’ve made no bones of the fact that I ain’t for everyone.

And many other things.

To me, it ain’t about Tom Tomming or not being modest.

If I were to say immodest or “not humble”, Id point at the person who says “Only I can do this,and no-one else can, should or is allowed to!”

THAT is the real negative aspect about all of this, and thankfully its only the Bozos who act that way.

You’ll never see Jeff Bezos tell someone he cant be surpassed.

In fact, he and others of his ilk will be more than happy to HELP a genuine doer as opposed to whine, moan, piss, groan and tear down.

Motivate and inspire is what its all about, NOT downplaying your own achievement or achievements!

And we all have ‘em!

Fitness wise, thats why (another reason) I keep telling you that if I did, so can YOU.

If I did it, bettering others, so can YOU better me.

But yes, you’ll have to be a doer first, foremost, above anything else and last.

You cant make excuses my friend.

You cant whine about price when you’re getting something from the Stella Artois of Fitness, and you sure cant complain about “how dare he”.

You know what I mean.

Let people know you did it – keep doing it – and then challenge THEM to better you!

(while getting better all the time yourself!).

As my great customer Charles Mitchell keeps telling me.

Never stop challenging us!

Amen, my brother. Amen.

I never will!

Best,

Rahul “pull-up super stud” Mookerjee.

Ps – And maybe thats why most of my customers don’t mind “shouting from the rooftops” about how good MY products are, the results they deliver to THEM and thus forth!