Good Traits
exploring good character traits, personalities, etc
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Good Traits
Many communicators try to make themselves look smart. Great listeners are more interested in making their audiences feel smart. They help people approach their own views with more humility, doubt, and curiosity. When people have a chance to express themselves out loud, they often discover new thoughts. As the writer E. M. Forster put it, “How can I
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“Nothing is lost while courage remains.”
― Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
2. Personality predicts lifespan length. The most important traits for living a long life are high conscientiousness, positive emotionality (extraversion), low levels of hostility, and low levels of neuroticism.
Rob Hendersonx.comA 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.
Resourcefulness is steady, patient, problem-solving persistence. A seemingly infinite capacity for a kind of trial-and-error that non-resourceful people would find impossibly draining and exhausting.
Venkatesh Rao • The Resourceful Life
Optimistic really ought to be a verb
It's something you *do*, not some property you happen to possess. Sometimes it's easy to do, and sometimes it's darned hard, requiring imagination & determination
Michael Nielsenx.comThe people who can turn 30 minute meetings into 5 minute meetings are so great
H/t Austen Allred
I used to think of resourcefulness as a kind of practical intelligence, but I’ve recently started thinking of it as a combination of an energy state, an attitude, and an unexamined philosophy.