Applying the Peter Principle to marriage and competence

[fathertime]

The PETER PRINCIPLE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle states: "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence"

Lets substitute the principle of marriage and women for employment/employee .  Every man strives for the very best woman that he can obtain.  If he is able to maintain/hold onto a woman than he naturally moves up to the next level.  He can only be satisfied when he has reached a level where he is no longer competent and able to move to a higher level of woman.  He then has no chance of being ‘promoted’ to a better woman for marriage and is stuck in his current marriage, which he is grossly incompetent in. 

 In applying the Peter Principle, the best a man can strive for is to be promoted to the highest level of babe, and be grossly incompetent in that marriage, then get ‘fired’ by the babe and reinserted into a new marriage commensurate with the man’s competence or perhaps slightly above his competence.

It seems to me that the principle works just fine, except for some of the brazen nerds that cheat and jump up several levels without passing the prerequisites first.  By Mudd’s accounts, these daredevils have been promoted several levels too high and need to be swatted back to earth and accept their life with hillybilly women.

 So it appears to me that those that have had the greatest of times in marriage/relationships need to go find your level of incompetence, but don't go too much higher than that.  And those of you that take your own needs TOO seriously also need to dial that back several notches!
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Fathertime!

 

[InnocentVixen]

  interesting post!

[Jeff S]

The Peter principle is about competence and incompetence. There seems to be some sort of underlying "rating" system on this board about messing with women above or below your pay grade - whether that grade is looks, age, "game," or whatever. It strikes me as silly, limiting, and just some excuse for putting others down. I don't "get" it at all.

As Stephen (of Stephen and Tess from the Asian board,) an attorney who occasionally handles divorces, told me so succinctly once: Mother Theresa and Al Capone never get married in the first place. You naturally gravitate (or should if you're thinking with the big head) to someone with an equivalent set of values as you. There's someone for everyone, whether it's Al Capone or Mother Theresa, (the laic equivalent of course.) Looking it from a level of high to low is silly and unproductive. Think of it as sorting through puzzle pieces, neither better or worse, more or less competent, but just one that fits better than the others. That's the way I look at it anyway.

[fathertime]

As Stephen (of Stephen and Tess from the Asian board,) an attorney who occasionally handles divorces, told me so succinctly once: Mother Theresa and Al Capone never get married in the first place. You naturally gravitate (or should if you're thinking with the big head) to someone with an equivalent set of values as you. There's someone for everyone, whether it's Al Capone or Mother Theresa, (the laic equivalent of course.) Looking it from a level of high to low is silly and unproductive. Think of it as sorting through puzzle pieces, neither better or worse, more or less competent, but just one that fits better than the others. That's the way I look at it anyway.

i happen to agree with the puzzle analogy of jeff's
i like the peter principle though and may be abstract food for thought.

Fathertime!

[Researcher]

   Interesting theory but the problem seems to be one of judgement to begin with.How is someone suppose to make that call? When it comes to the proper level.



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[Jedironin]

Well, since I'm 46 and never married, I'm kind of hoping I just haven't found the right puzzle piece, rather than think I have the "incompetence" part perfected.   

 

[fathertime]

   Interesting theory but the problem seems to be one of judgement to begin with.How is someone suppose to make that call? When it comes to the proper level.

   Researcher

yup lots of holes in it but thought it was at least food for thought.  I like the theory of incompetence in employment, although fact is, it really doesn't apply to marriages the same way it can apply to work situations.


Fathertime!

[z_k_g]

Silly concept with no correlation to marriage.  IMHO

Zulu