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I've never really been a 'nice' person.

In fact, to be honest, I find 'nice' people (Joj springs to mind), a tad irritating.

Some people, my wife for example, are in fact 'nice'.

She teaches English to the mentally handicapped, and enjoys it.

On Sunday I went to a concert of the mentally handicapped people she teaches.

Then I thought, why can't I be 'nice' for a change? Why can't it be me?

Of course, the mood won't last, but I thought I'd do a small amount of good in the virtual world.

So instead of posting 'stupid' stuff, I thought I would attempt to attract good karma to myself by making some useful and informative posts.

If anyone is in the mood for 'helping out' on the English forums, I suggest setting up some threads in the 'Cup of tea group'.

For example, a thread on when is your birthday, some language games, that kind of thing.

I've already set up a couple of threads there, and would like to help to get the forum 'buzzing'.

http://www.goldenline.pl/grupa/cup-of-tea
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Have you been watching My name is Earl by any chance?

Made a list yet? ;)
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warren whitmore:
I've never really been a 'nice' person.

In fact, to be honest, I find 'nice' people (Joj springs to mind), a tad irritating.


Warren, out of interest - do you think being "strong willed" etc. over being nice is an advantage or disadvantage both from a personal and business perspective? It reminds me of the saying "Nice guys finish last".... in your experience is this true?

Dan
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Daniel Gravel:
warren whitmore:
I've never really been a 'nice' person.

In fact, to be honest, I find 'nice' people (Joj springs to mind), a tad irritating.


Warren, out of interest - do you think being "strong willed" etc. over being nice is an advantage or disadvantage both from a personal and business perspective? It reminds me of the saying "Nice guys finish last".... in your experience is this true?

Dan

Hard to say.

I'd say my wife is probably more successful than I am 'cos she's 'nice' and develops a good karma around herself.

She says something like: 'you judge people by their attitude towards people who can't help you'.

She's universally liked, and I think this helps her from a business perspective.

If you help anyone for free, they don't tend to forget.

On the other hand, she's reluctant to push herself into the spotlight, which I am not.

Probably, we make a good combination.warren whitmore edytował(a) ten post dnia 07.05.08 o godzinie 09:45
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Daniel Gravel:
warren whitmore:
I've never really been a 'nice' person.

In fact, to be honest, I find 'nice' people (Joj springs to mind), a tad irritating.


Warren, out of interest - do you think being "strong willed" etc. over being nice is an advantage or disadvantage both from a personal and business perspective? It reminds me of the saying "Nice guys finish last".... in your experience is this true?

Dan

(tongue-in-cheek...and sigh):

It's true Daniel. It's true.
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C'mon, Joj, you don't finish last, do you?
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Complete loser.
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But seriously, in order to not derail Daniel's sincere question, I wanted to mention something about a study I read about. I think it was from the University of Michigan Department of Sociology. I don't have the methodology details for reference.

Briefly, they had a group of students live for a certain time by "The Golden Rule" (do unto others as you would have them do unto you, in other words); a group of students by the "Silver Rule," in effect treating others the way they treat you, and this so-called "Iron Rule," (do-it-to-them-before-they do-it-to-you).

Conclusion: The study subjects in the middle group demonstrated greater happiness over the course of the study...those who were devoted to treat people in likewise manners. Probably being too nice OR too mean move people in wrong directions.

You're not too mean...I'm for sure not so nice. Just tryin' to get by.
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