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+title: "Cognitive dissonance theory"
+titleKo: "인지부조화 이론"
+date: 2026-07-05
+deck: ""
+type:
+tags: []
+draft:
+---
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+The further I go, the more often I run into people steeped in cognitive dissonance, so I looked into it to understand them as best I can.
+To understand it, I found the book "A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance | Leon Festinger" at Kyobo Books and made the hefty investment of 22,000 won.
+Whether my brain stats are too low or the translation is just crap, I can't say, but for the parts I still didn't get after reading the book I got help from Gemini, and I tried to understand it as best I could based on the books I've read so far.
+
+Of course, what I mean is that I'm trying to "understand" people caught up in cognitive dissonance, self-objectification and impostor syndrome (literally "mask syndrome" in Korean); I have absolutely no intention of agreeing with their excuses or self-justifications.
+People who wear several masks and switch between them as the situation calls for usually package that as social skill, justify it to themselves, and even spread it to the people around them, all to protect the effort and the years they spent conducting themselves so desperately that way,
+and not only do I have not a shred of sympathy for that, but the more cases there are like mine, of people who blend into working life perfectly well without wearing a mask, the weaker their claim and logic that "you have to wear a mask to survive in society, that's what being mature is" inevitably becomes, and to someone like me it is neither persuasive nor relatable at all.
+
+Anyway, let me be clear: what I'm looking into is the desperate struggle of people caught up in cognitive dissonance, self-objectification and impostor syndrome, and why that is the most they can do, and the most they could have done.
+
+Rather than working to build the stamina to create, manage and maintain multiple personalities, I will put more energy into managing myself and, when I have room to spare, helping the people around me, and that is what I'm doing.
+In the end, creating and managing multiple personalities uses up a considerable amount of mental stress and stamina, so if your stamina can't back it up, it's only a matter of time before the mask comes off. And of course, the side effects when the mask comes off hit twice as hard as they would if you had lived without one.
+
+# Overview
+First proposed by the American psychologist Leon Festinger, this concept refers to the intense psychological discomfort that arises when two or more of a person's beliefs, values or behaviors contradict each other.
+In the past it arose mainly in particular ethical dilemmas, but for people today, the very structure of everyday life is designed to produce cognitive dissonance.
+
+# The causes of cognitive dissonance, and why it is accelerating
+
+## The clash with the self on display on social media (the paradox of a hyperconnected society)
+Social media like Instagram is a giant factory that mass-produces cognitive dissonance.
+In the past, the gap between people's real lives and the lives they showed was not large. Now, though, people have to carry two selves at once: the thoroughly edited and retouched "perfect me online" and the tired, imperfect "me in real life."
+- The gap between belief and reality: On the outside you display lavish spending and happiness, but inside, a depressing, crappy (real) situation keeps repeating. The brain can't resolve this huge contradiction and falls into chronic stress and a state of cognitive dissonance.
+
+## The structural contradiction of a performance-driven society (the illusion of self-realization)
+Modern capitalist society goes beyond simply demanding labor; it even forces emotional stirrings on people: "Love your work," "Have passion," "Show you mean it."
+Since simply doing the job well (performance) no longer helps much in the competition (differentiation), it now forces emotional stirrings too: feelings, character, sincerity.
+- Forced emotion: In reality you're forcing yourself to work in order to survive, yet on the outside you have to pretend you're devoted to the company and realizing yourself. The inner truth, "I hate this job," and the outward behavior, "I'm professionally immersed in this job," collide head-on every day and produce serious cognitive dissonance. As the philosopher Byung-Chul Han put it in *The Burnout Society*, the contradiction of exploiting yourself while having to believe it is self-realization is what makes people today sick.
+
+## The demand for anonymity and multiple personas (rapid urbanization)
+Rapid urbanization pushed people out into a vast sea of anonymity. In traditional communities, an individual's identity as "me" stayed relatively single and consistent.
+- Fragmented identity: But individuals today have a different face at work, on social media, in front of their family and when they're alone. In the process of putting on and taking off these fragmented personas to suit the situation, a fundamental cognitive dissonance arises: "Who on earth is the real me?"
+
+## Information overload and the collapse of values
+People today are exposed to thousands of conflicting pieces of information and values every day. Small contradictions are scattered all through daily life, like the gap between believing "we must protect the environment" and ordering convenient "delivery food" right now.
+Too much information and too many choices paradoxically make it hard for our actions and beliefs to line up, and the small cognitive dissonances this creates pile up and lead to chronic fatigue.
+
+# Why people keep wearing masks and sinking into the swamp of cognitive dissonance, even though masks drain their energy and bring stress and pain
+
+## Instant dopamine rewards and delayed pain
+When you display a carefully crafted self (a mask) on social media like Instagram, you get a sure, instant pleasure (dopamine) in the form of "likes." The mental fatigue and cognitive dissonance that build up from acting out a fake self, on the other hand, are a delayed pain that slowly eats away at your soul.
+The human brain is far more vulnerable to a strong reward right in front of it than to pain in the distant future. So even while knowing rationally that it's exhausting, people get addicted to the sweetness of that instant social approval and attention and keep readjusting their masks.
+
+## A primal fear of isolation (an evolutionary-psychology view, ref. *Collective Illusions* | Todd Rose)
+Humans are social animals that evolved to be unable to survive once separated from the group. In modern society, taking off your mask is unconsciously taken to mean leaving the mainstream group, in other words social death.
+In spaces like social media or a cutthroat workplace, where everyone wears a perfect, happy mask, being the only one to show a tired, shabby real face feels like more than enormous courage: it feels like a threat to survival. So even when their stamina hits bottom, people wear masks so as not to fall behind or be left out of the group.
+
+## The mask arms race and relative deprivation
+Modern society is caught in a kind of mask arms race. Once you mistake other people's masks (the perfect vacation, the successful career, the happy relationship) for their truth, your own reality looks endlessly shabby.
+To survive amid this enormous relative deprivation, people build thicker, flashier masks so as not to fall behind others. Because taking off your own mask feels like losing the competition, everyone is exhausted, yet nobody can take theirs off first; they're trapped in a Prisoner's Dilemma.
+
+## Sunk costs and identifying with the mask
+Once you've spent a long time carefully building an impressive persona, a sunk cost builds up in that mask: the social reputation and relationships attached to it. A fear sets in that the moment you throw off the mask, the people who loved that fake self and the status you built up will all come crashing down.
+Later, as the line between the real you and the masked you blurs, people reach the point of mistakenly believing they are only worth something while they're wearing the mask. Having entrusted their self-esteem to a fake self, they can't take it off even if they want to.
+
+In the end, people wear masks even at the cost of their stamina because society forces them into mistaking it for "the most rational survival strategy" an individual can choose in a society gone mad.
+
+# Breaking off this insane mask arms race
+
+## Masks past and present
+- The survival mask of the past: In traditional society, the mask was strictly a matter of status and saving face. You wore the mask that society or your class forced on you, and if you conformed within that frame without standing out, you could get by and survive. You had no need to prove for yourself what kind of person you were
+- The proof mask of today: The tragedy of today, by contrast, is that where the class system disappeared, in the name of "freedom," we now live in an age where each person has to mold their own mask and prove it. Everyone has been forced onto a vast stage where they must prove for themselves "How special, successful and flawless a life am I living?"
+
+## How to break off this crazy mask arms race
+- Solidarity in vulnerability instead of perfection: Lately there are more and more cases of people who, instead of a perfect mask, honestly show their depression, burnout and failures, and win stronger support and solidarity for it. The moment a genuine sense of "So it's not just me who's struggling" forms, the flashy mask loses its power.
+- Digital detox and the rise of JOMO: Beyond the FOMO (fear of missing out) people feel watching others' flashy masks, a movement is emerging that pursues JOMO (Joy Of Missing Out): voluntarily disconnecting and getting out from under other people's gaze.
+- Deliberate energy minimalism: A way of living that, instead of maintaining multiple personas to look like a good person to everyone, concentrates its energy only on the very few relationships that recognize your true heart and on your own whole inner self.
+
+## Someone has to do it
+The surest way to end this crazy competition, paradoxically, is for someone to declare disarmament first.
+When everyone is watching everyone else and painting their masks on ever thicker, the courage of just one person who shows their bare face, saying "I'm getting out of this exhausting, meaningless game," gives the people around them an enormous sense of liberation that lets them take off their masks too.
+
+# Taking advantage of the cognitive-dissonance society (how the psychological deficits of modern society feed into huge flows of capital and industry)
+There is also a way to take advantage of a society riddled with cognitive dissonance instead of bothering to try to change it.
+The longer a cognitive-dissonance society lasts and the more advanced it becomes, the more the idol and entertainment businesses can grow.
+In a society where cognitive dissonance is rampant, the scarcity of a time and place where you can show your true feelings becomes ever more valuable, and so will the supply aimed at people worn out by cognitive dissonance.
+
+## The premiumization of emotional sanctuaries (Emotional Sanctuary)
+In daily life and at work you have to control your emotions thoroughly and act out a persona. Showing raw emotions such as anger, sadness or blind passion comes with social punishment and risk.
+But the space of an idol concert or a fandom is a rare emotional safe zone, where no matter what passion and cheers I pour out, I am never criticized.
+The greater the pressure of the cognitive dissonance suppressed in daily life, the more willing people become to pay huge sums for a time and place where they can let that pressure out.
+The absolute scarcity of places to pour out your true feelings becomes the very engine of the industry's explosive growth.
+
+## The longing for a perfectly controlled relationship that cannot hurt you
+Real-world relationships are a continuous series of interactions and inevitably come with misunderstandings, conflict and emotional drain (contradictions colliding).
+People today, their fatigue at its peak, no longer have the capacity to form and maintain complicated real-world relationships.
+The relationship between a fan and an idol (a parasocial relationship, Parasocial Interaction), by contrast, is thoroughly controlled and safe.
+Even if I give unconditional affection, there's no chance of running into real conflict or being rejected.
+This perfect safety net, knowing I won't get hurt even if I project 100% of my true feelings, becomes the most attractive substitute for people worn out by cognitive dissonance.
+
+## Authenticity itself as a high-value-added product
+If the entertainment of the past simply sold performances of song and dance, the entertainment of the future will evolve into an industry that sells authenticity and narrative through and through.
+The more the world is full of masks and pretense, the more people paradoxically crave the real thing.
+The fleeting sincerity an idol shows while sweating on a planned stage, the close bond between the members, the narrative of growing by overcoming hardship: these are precious emotions that people today find hard to come by in daily life.
+The reason the private messaging services that feel like one-on-one conversations between idols and fans (Bubble, Weverse and the like) have recently been making huge revenues is that they have finely turned this sense of genuine connection into a product.
+
+The entertainment industry looks set to keep expanding its size and influence without end, absorbing even the role of a kind of alternative psychotherapy or modern-day religion that fills people's depleted inner lives and lowers the pressure of cognitive dissonance.
+What we need to be careful about here, though, is that if people gradually give up on exhausting real-world relationships and lean only on "safe sincerity inside entertainment," which can be had only by paying money, our real society could end up even more fragmented and isolated.
+
+You can easily see Koreans' love of masks in all kinds of media.
+On *Culinary Class Wars* season 2, Choi Kang-rok won a lot of love for his timid, self-effacing charm despite his outstanding cooking skills,
+while Lee Ha-seong (the "Cooking Monster"), quite apart from his outstanding cooking skills, got a lot of needless hate comments because he showed a confident self all his own.
+
+People say they like sincerity, authenticity and rawness more than pretense.
+But don't be fooled by that.
+People want you to show your raw side within their own lines, inside their own box; show a raw side that stands out beyond that, or is more than they can handle, and they get uncomfortable and dislike it.
+They want to see a raw side that is controlled and stays within the standard; they never want to see a side that is literally, truly raw.
+
+Most people live hard lives behind masks.
+But when they see people living comfortably without any mask at all, they get uncomfortable, envious and jealous.
+Admiration is partial and fleeting.
+
+Keep in mind that most people put on several masks every day and live hard lives.
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+title: "I want to work with someone who brings out the genuine side of me"
+titleKo: "난 나를 진심으로 만드는 사람이랑 일하고 싶어"
+date: 2026-06-30
+deck: ""
+type:
+tags: []
+draft:
+---
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+
+Rambling on and on after coming back from a genba (a live idol show)
+
+At a concert, the idols don't truly love the fans, but the fans cheer for the idols out of a heart that truly loves and adores them,
+and in a way the idols are lying to the fans while the fans give the idols their all, and I found myself questioning my own feelings: why does a space where pretense and truth coexist and collide like this
+feel so interesting and attractive?
+
+To be honest, I couldn't pin down exactly in what sense this feeling gives me catharsis, but I was able to sort it out to some extent.
+
+A space where pretense (staged fantasy) and truth (pure emotion) collide and fuse has a peculiar charm that words can't describe.
+I wondered how a space where thoroughly planned fantasy and raw sincerity coexist could give off such explosive energy and captivate people.
+
+Real-world relationships are complicated and unpredictable, and there's always the risk of getting hurt when you give someone your all and they don't give the same back.
+But the relationship between an idol and their fans has a breakwater: thoroughly planned pretense (the performance on stage).
+Because fans unconsciously know this relationship is controlled, they can actually pour out, far more safely than in real life and without fear of being hurt, all of their
+sincerity and passion. (Paradoxically, the pretense is what sets the sincerity free.)
+
+In literature and film there's a concept called the willing suspension of disbelief.
+It means knowing a movie is fake yet believing it's real just for that moment and shedding tears.
+Deep down, fans also know that an idol's "愛してる" ("I love you") isn't aimed at them as individuals.
+But the moment they step into that space, people agree to willingly take part in that beautiful lie.
+Because even if what happens on stage is staged, my feelings, my heart pounding and being comforted as I watch it, are 100% real.
+
+A concert hall is the crystallization of cold, meticulously calculated capital and planning. It's an artificial realm where everything down to the lighting, the movement, the talk between songs and every single expression is precisely crafted.
+But the cheers, tears and frenzy pouring out of the fans below the stage are raw emotions, completely uncontrolled.
+When the most refined pretense and the most explosive truth collide head-on in one space, that extreme contrast creates an enormous catharsis and a strange aesthetic
+that you can never experience in everyday life.
+
+In a way, it's less that the idols are lying one-sidedly and more that they're staging a huge vessel to hold the fans' sincerity.
+Even if it started out as pretense, the hot air and the sense of bond filling that concert hall become one huge truth.
+
+That's why idols' ad-libs stand out all the more
+
+Because 99% of it is a perfect stage, thoroughly controlled and calculated, the 1% of uncontrolled sincerity that pops out unexpectedly (an ad-lib, a mistake, tears shed when emotions well up)
+shines all the brighter.
+Emotions that could easily go numb in an everyday life where only raw feelings go back and forth get a powerful spotlight of truth, thanks to the dark backdrop of pretense.
+
+On top of that, you feel an intense bond, a sense that you're connecting with a human being who feels and reacts just like you. (Because sometimes vulnerability opens people's hearts more deeply than perfection does.)
+
+But the workplace is also a space where pretense and sincerity coexist, yet it's hard to see it as a place that gives you catharsis or is interesting.
+
+The decisive difference between the two spaces is that their rules and purposes are complete opposites.
+
+Pretense at work is emotional labor forced on you for your own survival (salary, career, performance reviews). Getting on your boss's good side and loyalty to the company are not choices but
+closer to duties, so far from catharsis, they only give you an oppressive feeling that drains your energy.
+
+Also, an idol's pretense is designed to give fans the greatest happiness and fantasy, but pretense at work is a defense mechanism for avoiding conflict and functioning smoothly as a cog in the organization.
+At work, sincerity comes back to bite you the moment it shows.
+Truths like anger at your boss, boredom with your work, or honest but painful criticism get you judged as unprofessional.
+Because it's a space where you're safe only if you hide your sincerity, its appeal can't help but be halved.
+
+An idol's pretense, just like pretense at work, is emotional labor that each idol performs in order to survive, but there's a big difference in how the consumers of that emotional labor take it.
+At work, when a colleague or partner smiles kindly at me, I don't deeply mistake it or expect that "that person must really like me."
+Both sides are all too aware of the reality that they're acting for the sake of working life.
+
+But fans at a concert, even while knowing rationally that the idols' pretense is their job, want to lose themselves in the fantasy just for that moment.
+Because it's a space where an agreement has been reached, "Give me a perfect, beautiful lie (fantasy)," that pretense becomes an object of passionate consumption instead of criticism.
+
+So if, in the end, all of us are pretending in order to survive, is pretense actually right?
+
+To give the conclusion first: pretense and sincerity aren't a moral question of good and evil but tools people use to get through life without getting hurt.
+
+Pretense is the minimum line of defense for protecting your own fragile heart and keeping you from clashing with others unnecessarily.
+Raw, unprocessed sincerity is so heavy and sharp that it can sometimes become a sharp weapon, turning into violence against others and wounding them deeply.
+
+### Because a lie is the greatest love
+To tell someone a perfect lie, you have to watch them constantly and figure out what they want.
+You have to hide your own mood and feelings completely and craft expressions and words solely to make the other person happy.
+It's not a selfish lie to protect myself but an altruistic lie that pours all my energy into not breaking "the most beautiful dream" the fans want to see.
+It's a resolve to willingly become a perfect performer for others' happiness, even at the cost of whittling away your own self, and that in itself is already enormous devotion and love.
+
+In the story, Ai Hoshino fears her own empty inner self, which doesn't know the essential feeling of love. So she keeps saying the lie "I love my fans," desperately hoping that someday this lie will become the real truth.
+She uses lies not merely as deception but as stepping stones toward sincerity.
+It's the belief that even without perfect sincerity in her heart, if she imitates it and keeps saying "I love you," at some point that feeling will truly bloom inside her.
+In other words, lying is the very best effort Ai Hoshino can make to reach sincerity.
+If she carries that lie to her grave, in the end it is no different from the biggest, heaviest truth.
+
+
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-title: "I want to work with someone who brings out the genuine side of me"
+title: "I want to work with someone who brings out the genuine side of me_KR"
titleKo: ""
date: 2026-06-30
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+---
+title: "Resignation review"
+titleKo: "퇴사리뷰"
+date: 2026-06-30
+deck: ""
+type:
+tags: []
+draft:
+---
+
+This time it's an essay to mark a resignation that came around again all too soon.
+Let's begin.
+
+I joined AISpera on November 16, 2025.
+And on June 30, 2026, the day I'm writing this, I resigned.
+
+First, you need to know why I joined AISpera: for what purpose, and with what expectations.
+
+The company I worked at right before AISpera was a small-to-mid-sized company with a fair bit of name recognition among information security service providers.
+It was a first-generation information security consulting firm, and as befits its long history, it had many major clients it had kept relationships with for years.
+So it was a company backed by steady revenue, and on the strength of that revenue the CEO and executives pushed ahead with all sorts of investments,
+but unfortunately none of them ever turned into a proper investment.
+Also, the existing way of selling had become so entrenched that, instead of competing with rivals on genuinely high-quality technology and services to win contracts,
+employees like me were being used in a sales approach built on collusion and lobbying.
+
+For the record, I have a chronic illness.
+There's one illness that's hard to cure, no matter how hard I struggle and try.
+
+It's the illness of pouring my sincerity into everything, and it is both the life that keeps me living and moving forward and something like a death that is killing me.
+
+I feel alive when sincerity meets sincerity.
+When sincerity meets sincerity, it can create positive synergy, but it can also cause conflict and trouble.
+But even that trouble lets each side find their differences and directions for improvement and get meaningful results, so I think what you gain outweighs a little trouble.
+Only then, I think, when people truly collide with each other, do they think and act organically and fulfill their purpose as organic compounds and multicellular animals, befitting the meaning of human existence.
+
+This carries over in the same way to organizations, where people coexist with people.
+
+I think an organization, too, is ultimately one big multicellular animal made up of people, who are multicellular animals themselves.
+I think each employee's reason for being is to organically handle the work they're responsible for on behalf of the one big animal called the organization, and to grow so that the organization survives and heads in a better direction.
+In the end, to move this big organic life form and keep it alive, each single cell has to take on a role with a purpose. A single cell with no purpose no longer functions and isn't used, so it is the law of nature that it degenerates and disappears.
+
+Organizations are the same.
+Among the single cells called employees inside an organization, a cell with no purpose or reason for being is as good as a dead cell, and an organization where such cells are the majority is no different from a dead organization, a dead life.
+
+Back to the main point: to my eyes, my previous company was no different from a dead organization.
+Most of the employees I dealt with existed in the organization without purpose, simply existing without the thinking and deliberation humans are capable of, doing what a well-trained dog or monkey could do just fine.
+I didn't want to fall into a rut myself inside such a dying organization, and in the end I wasn't satisfied.
+So I decided to change jobs and took on the challenge of joining a startup, an organization that, in all probability, is light on its feet and young and so moves organically with ease.
+
+When I applied to the organization called AISpera, I had exactly two expectations.
+
+1. Being light on its feet, the organization's goal would be focused on "growth," so wouldn't everyone move the same way under the goal of growing the organization?
+2. Being light on its feet, it would keep unnecessary processes and systems to a minimum, so there wouldn't be any dead cells, right?
+
+Maybe those were vain dreams and expectations I'd pinned on the size of a company called a startup.
+But unfortunately, AISpera turned out to be completely at odds with my expectations.
+
+Its history was short, yet it was lined with unnecessary legacy policies, processes and systems with neither purpose nor meaning.
+Unnecessary systems and processes eating away at resources under the phrase "it's always been this way," with nobody knowing who created them for what purpose or why we do them.
+Micromanagement full of distrust, because there was no trust underneath.
+An environment where everyone knew there was a problem, but the tumor had already grown as big as it could get, and since they knew trying to remove it would hurt themselves and the teams around them, they'd been busy hushing it up and covering it over for years.
+A situation where people were locked in power struggles within that small organization.
+
+What I saw wasn't a dead organization but one that was harming itself.
+
+In particular, the meaningless, unnecessary systems and processes that had survived under the phrase "it's always been this way" were bubbles that would quietly disappear, without anyone even noticing they were gone, the moment someone broke the cycle, bubbles nobody complained about
+and nobody even knew existed, and they had piled up and up until they were pressing down on the organization's throat.
+Something else I found really curious: given how startups work, it's almost inevitable that many experienced hires from large corporations end up in management positions, and what struck me as really odd was the way they would badmouth the large corporation they had just left, then say "this is how my last company did it" as they tried to bring in and build that very company's culture and systems. I truly couldn't understand it.
+There's a Korean saying that if a monk doesn't like the temple, it's the monk who should leave. A monk who left the temple because he hated it, only to bring in the very same systems and culture and build a second temple, made no logical sense to me at all, which I think is why it struck me as so curious.
+
+The lesson I took from this resignation is that, organic as organizations are, they can exist in truly diverse ways, and I could also confirm a case where an organization, by its nature, can even harm itself.
+Over eight years of watching from inside various organizations, I'd experienced ones that were more or less alike, but this time I got to experience a completely unexpected new kind of organization, and it was a meaningful experience that showed me there are all sorts of cases, from many angles.
+
+### Update, June 30, 2026
+
+"It becomes a problem the moment you recognize the problem as a problem"
+"Ignorance is not a sin"
+
+Many people abuse these two.
+
+If you talk with them casually when their guard is down, they know and are aware that things are going wrong and that there's a problem.
+But no one actually says it out loud within the organization.
+Because the moment they say it, the risk is too great.
+The moment you say out loud that there's a problem, you're easily branded an irresponsible failure who recognized the problem yet didn't solve it,
+or an incompetent failure who recognized the problem yet couldn't solve it.
+From the moment it shows that you recognized a problem, responsibility for that problem falls solely on the people who recognized it, while those who didn't are granted absolution for the sole reason that they were ignorant.
+
+This kind of environment is usually seen a lot in stagnant organizations of entrenched old-timers who work with their mouths rather than their abilities.
+
+In the system those old-timers built, no one raises any problems, so there are no problems, and it looks like an organization running normally and smoothly.
+But when a new employee who knows nothing walks into that system and raises a problem, all the responsibility is shifted onto the newcomer who raised it.
+Then the new employee judges that shouldering the responsibility alone is bad for survival, and ends up trapped in the same vicious cycle where nobody raises problems.
+In the end, the organization is left with nothing but sycophants full of lip service, biting at each other like an ouroboros.
+
+People new to working life probably see a lot of cases like this, and at first it's easy to fall for the gaslighting of those wily old snakes who have survived 10 or 15 years in society, the "I really didn't know. There was something like that?", and to fall into a dilemma: Am I too sensitive? Am I the only one who thinks it's a problem?
+But after a few years of working life, there comes a time when you realize those words weren't said because they truly didn't know, but are those people's way of surviving in working life.
+When I realized that, I was really angry that I'd fallen for that gaslighting.
+But I took comfort in the fact that out there are also healthy, mature organizations where, if you raise a problem, the responsibility doesn't all fall on the person who raised it; instead the whole organization takes responsibility and faces the problem squarely and works through it, rather than pointedly ignoring it and covering it up.
+
+I'm nobody special, but if I could say just one thing to people new to working life, I'd ask them not to be frustrated, discouraged or assimilated by the systems the old-timers built, because there are also many people who break those systems and move forward, so never become like them.
+I have no doubt that only when each and every person breaks out of that cycle can it become the driving force for building a mature and healthy society.
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-title: "Resignation review"
+title: "Resignation review_KR"
titleKo: ""
date: 2026-06-30
deck: ""
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