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Imo, it's because swearing indicates frustration, and frustration indicates effort.


Or as Good to Great calls it, "Confronting the brutal facts".

"This is bullshit" is an important realization. If you can't say it, then things will stay miserable.


So I need to use more profanity at work, then ask for a raise?

(But I concede that effort and productivity are not the same thing.)




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