reality distortion field

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Meaning: (idiomatic)Thepersuasiveabilityof aleaderorentrepreneur, especially in misleading or convincing others in order topromoteaproductorservice.2007,Cory Doctorow,Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present, Thunder's Mouth Press,→ISBN:I fell silent under her stony glare. I tried to keep going, but I couldn't. Blight had the opposite of areality distortion field. A reality assertion field.2013, Alistair Croll, Benjamin Yoskovitz,Lean Analytics, O'Reilly Media,→ISBN, page 3:Small lies are essential. They create yourreality distortion field. They are a necessary part of being an entrepreneur. But if you start believing your own hype, you won't survive.2018August 16, Kara Swisher, “Elon Musk Is the Id of Tech”, inNew York Times‎[2]:Mr. Jobs used his famousreality distortion fieldto bend the news media and investors and everyone else to his will.2021, Tom Eisenmann,Why Startups Fail, Crown,→ISBN, page41:By propagating a "reality distortion field"—that is, mesmerizing potential employees, investors, and strategic partners so they focus on a startup's world-changing potential rather than on its real-world risks—overconfident and charismatic founders in particular are able to persuade people to commit resources under terms favorable to their new venture.; (literally)Anenvironmentwhichaltersone'sperceptionofreality.2012, Mats Larsson,The Business of Global Energy Transformation, Palgrave Macmillan,→ISBN:At present we sometimes experience what can be interpreted as a "reality distortion field" built upon arguments that have been developed by the innovators and early adopters within the sustainability movement.2019, Aaron Ross, Jason Lemkin,From Impossible to Inevitable, Wiley,→ISBN, page222:If you're on social media at all, and follow many news sources, you're bombarded with stories of other people's successes[…]This generates a "Reality Distortion Field" in which everyone else appears to experience 95% success and 5% struggle.2020, John Elkington,Green Swans, Greenleaf Book Group Press,→ISBN:If your work takes you regularly into the world's boardrooms and C-suites, it really is hard to miss thereality distortion fieldssuch places generate.2021, Michael Sahota, Audree Tara,Leading Beyond Change, Berrett-Koehler Publishers,→ISBN, page54:[W]e operate on a generalized, distorted, and incomplete model of reality. The most accurate way to describe our mind is as areality distortion field.

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