Is the Time of the Braggadocio Up?

<p>Braggadocio is a fabulous word with a great history to its orrigin - find out what it means to your business and its implications.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Podcast Transcript</strong></span></p> <p>Today. I saw something on Twitter, which caught my attention. I must admit I've become a real user of Twitter a lot over the years. I've stopped reading newspapers, which is bad for the newspaper industry, but I'm fond of Twitter, I don't participate in it much, but I like to read it. I also find it's a great aggregator of all the news that's going on. Just don’t get too wrapped up in it.</p> <p>However, there was this tweet that came through this morning. It was a beauty, and it was regarding Trump's estranged niece in her new book, where she depicts a man trained in deception and braggadocio, by a distant and dysfunctional father. I just loved that word “braggadocio.” It sounds Italian. I mean, it's got an Italian ending, and if you actually look at what it means according to the dictionary, braggadocio means boastful or arrogant behaviour. That word always resonated with me.</p> <p>My mother used to use it. When I was a kid, I can always remember her saying to me. “Peter, pride comes before a fall.” To be honest with you. I think that held me back a little.</p> <p>When I was young, I was too scared to put my head up and get knocked down because this pride was always going to come right before a fall, but I understood, and I understood a little later that what she was saying. It was “be aware of being arrogant.” There's nothing wrong with being proud. There's nothing wrong with being proud of your achievements, but it was the arrogance that you had to watch out for. Of course, if you have been around long enough, you tend to see popular culture trends, come and go and come back go again, with a slightly different twist.</p> <p>It wasn’t easy to accept my mother’s advice when observing the great Cassius Clay as I was growing up. When he was young and was brash, arrogant, and confiden