If you want to be a bawss in this world, forget all that polite garbage your mother taught you.
According to a study led by Gerben Van Kleef of the University of Amsterdam, people who break the basic rules of social behavior are perceived by others as badass, powerful motherfu*ckers who make decisions and get others to obey them.
Van Kleef and colleagues had people come to the lab and interact with a rule follower and a rule breaker. The rule follower was polite and acted normally, while the rule breaker arrived late, threw down his bag on a table and put up his feet. After the interaction, people thought the rule breaker had more power and was more likely to “get others to do what he wants.”
In other words, behave like this and you’ll rule the world in less than a week:
