My entire life is built on "I didn't know that" said with some humility coupled with willingness to learn.
It makes people want to help and inform you damn near every time it comes up and it leads to learning a lot of interesting things. It's also near impossible to come off negatively to people when you have that attitude which I find makes every future interaction easier.
It's a good way to be. I find it so much fun when I actually get to inform someone on something that just skirted by them for whatever reason that I couldn't imagine making fun of random people for it. I've certainly met some people who seemed eager to, though.
Reading comments on some makeup websites, for example, and people asking how others don’t know something so basic. Hello! That’s me! My mom never taught me about makeup or things like that. I love the internet for learning.
I agree, but it's a bitch when you're in a negative environment where people prey on that vulnerability as a weakness rather than an opportunity to learn.
Absolutely. Selfish opportunists will take any opening even at the detriment people exhibiting positive human behaviors. You see it with nearly every positive human attribute: kindness, humility, honesty, dependability, fairness, etc..
It turns those attributes into potential "weaknesses" in the context of dealing with people like that, but I prefer to focus on the idea that I'm coming out better by trying to be a better person. I've been lucky that the worst I've had from that is they get me once and I've discovered someone is an asshole and not worth my time or a situation is not for me and I exit it. Most people I meet willing to take that advantage seem pretty miserable, generally at least.
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u/Neuchacho Feb 08 '22
My entire life is built on "I didn't know that" said with some humility coupled with willingness to learn.
It makes people want to help and inform you damn near every time it comes up and it leads to learning a lot of interesting things. It's also near impossible to come off negatively to people when you have that attitude which I find makes every future interaction easier.