IN EVERYDAY LIFE, MEN tended not to notice what Zoey was wearing unless it made her look far more or far less attractive than her baseline. In high-stakes business meetings with powerful sociopaths, however, the decision about what to wear was supposedly much more fraught. Will relentlessly reminded her that these meetings were full of subliminal dominance signals that Zoey still barely understood, rules these guys apparently learned in business school or while apprenticing for their rich and powerful fathers. Those rules were, by design, incomprehensible to outsiders. Strivers projected power
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