Flavio Matani (flavius_m) wrote,
Flavio Matani
flavius_m

they're not out to get you.

Pronoia: “the delusion that others think well of one, the unreasoning belief that your superiors think you are indispensable, that your colleagues adore you, and that you are doing brilliantly in your work"
a word coined by Fred Goldner, in an article in Social Problems (1982) -nicked from a music theory site.
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