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I think people don't realize how many doors are automatically open for them if they're polite and hard working. Lots of interactions go way smoother if your end is always covered and the person you're talking to wants to help you because you're being nice.
Compare this to someone who is lazy and impolite. I think polite people would be genuinely surprised at how shit the day-to-day life of someone impolite is. Of course we'll never hear it from the impolite because a defining characteristic is that they're self-centered and ignorant.
The key is asking for it. Someone lazy and impolite who asks/demands that things go their way will get a lot of validation (externally at least)
But if you're polite and hardworking and ask to get your way (which is not necessarily impolite, no matter what the perpetually anxious try to tell you), you actually have even more opportunities laid out for you.
*laughs in a plethora of doors opened with everyone else barging through them instead
What? Yeah? Some doors open in some ways other doors open in others?
my comment was about how doors open in my life, and I never make it through because other people enter before I do and close the door leaving me standing around confused
To quote Parasite (2019):
Similarly, it also closes doors, especially in the US where the egregore of the "Executive leader" dominates - the kind of people who'll forward an email with just "?!" as the body and expect their team to fix whatever problem it contains.