reality distortion field
nounEtymology
In the idiomatic sense, coined by software developer Bud Tribble at Apple Computer in 1981, to describe company co-founder Steve Jobs' charisma and its effects on the developers working on the Mac project: "Steve has a reality distortion field. […] In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything." The term was borrowed from the 1966 Star Trek episode "The Menagerie", in which the humanoid Talosians are able to create lifelike illusions using such fields.
Definitions
The persuasive ability of a leader or entrepreneur, especially in misleading or…
The persuasive ability of a leader or entrepreneur, especially in misleading or convincing others in order to promote a product or service.
- I fell silent under her stony glare. I tried to keep going, but I couldn't. Blight had the opposite of a reality distortion field. A reality assertion field.
- Small lies are essential. They create your reality distortion field. They are a necessary part of being an entrepreneur. But if you start believing your own hype, you won't survive.
- Mr. Jobs used his famous reality distortion field to bend the news media and investors and everyone else to his will.
An environment which alters one's perception of reality.
- At present we sometimes experience what can be interpreted as a "reality distortion field" built upon arguments that have been developed by the innovators and early adopters within the sustainability movement.
- If your work takes you regularly into the world's boardrooms and C-suites, it really is hard to miss the reality distortion fields such places generate.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA