Comment by PRW123 on Social status hacks from The Improv Wiki · 2014-05-27T16:14:49.390Z · LW · GW

What are people's views on the compliments aspect of this, surely it is a mark of high status to be able to give compliments to people knowing that you are in a secure enough status situation to be able to do so?

I.E the same theory behind a manager telling his staff well done for a project is an act of total confidence... He doesn't feel threatened by boosting their status as he knows by doing so it will not affect his own.