How Storytelling Reveals Who’s NOT A Friend: 5 Red Flags

Using a story to covert-brag can be fair.

But if the covert brag involves you looking bad and your “friend” looking great by comparison, well, that’s a nasty power move.

We call it “nasty social climbing”.
And it’s when someone uses you as a “social peg” to reach higher (while they push you lower).

Let’s see a real-life example of how that would look like:

Red flag #1 : You look bad in the story

Imagine:

Your friend is telling a story involving both of you.

Generally sp...