Being nice can be a bad thing. If people know you’re a pushover, they’ll walk all over you all day. You’ve probably heard these things before.
The idea is that nice people don’t defend themselves. They don’t get up in someone else’s grill when they’ve been slighted. That turns them into an easy target.
Nice people don’t know how to compete. They’re too afraid to go out and take what’s theirs. They lack ambition. The problem with that way of thinking is that it ignores what being nice really means.
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