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The most important thing we look for in other people
When asked what is the most important thing a person looks for in other people, the answer is often character traits like honesty, humour, confidence, and charisma, But these answers are probably not correct.
There are three components, when combined, that creates a spellbinding supernova of a person - that of humility, curiosity, and empathy. When you stack humility, curiosity and empathy, you can easily see how they amplify each other. If you take any two without the third, you’re missing a crucial component.
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Humility is the soil of knowledge
Humility is the root of all growth, learning and kindness. It is the idea that you are not so great that you can't learn more, and it is the belief that we are all interconnected equals.
People who exhibit humility let their work speak for itself. They remain stoic in the face of their own suffering. Humility quells ignorance and cultivates grace.
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Curiosity is how you value yourself and others
Curiosity drives an insatiable quest for knowledge, culture, novelty, experience, beauty, art and connection.
People who exhibit curiosity have an open mind. They can become masters, polymaths, or auteurs. They first seek to listen, to absorb, to Immerse, to traverse.
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Empathy is how you value the bonds between yourself and others
Empathy is the ability to see the world through other's eyes.
Empathetic people genuinely care, but they also remind us that it's okay to be still with someone else and not overstep their boundaries. Empathy produces compassion, connection and love.
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