Good Traits
exploring good character traits, personalities, etc
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Good Traits
“Respectfully interacting with people you disagree with” and “Getting to the point”.
People with very high expectations have very low resilience
via Jensen Huang: I’ve seen plenty of straight-A Ivy-league students struggle when they enter the real world.
A biographer of the novelist E. M. Forster wrote, “To speak to him was to be seduced by an inverse charisma, a sense of being listened to with such intensity that you had to be your most honest, sharpest, and best self.” Imagine how good it would be to be that guy.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
I spent the last month trying to answer the impossible question:
What makes someone likable?
Below, I break down 9 techniques that will help you dial up the charisma in your everyday life:
I know that being silly is a gift. You un-taboo silliness for everyone around you.
Underrated: people who make you believe that anything is possible.
"Remember that buying s**t is not the same as having swag. Remember that having cool interests beyond cool clothes, and doing good deeds besides putting together sick outfits (which, to be clear, is a good deed), will make your clothes look better on you"
h/t BLKBRD_Spyplane
A kind person will help you understand reality as it is, prompt you to reflect, and nudge you to fine-tune your position till you get to a place where your resolution is helpful for you. A nice person will tell you what feels good - and often what you think you want to hear at that time - even if it doesn’t help you move past that situation.
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Damola Morenikeji • Kinda Nice
Boldness
