eventually, you can learn to see Good in others reflexively beyond embiggening ones Charm, this is an important trait to develop for living a happy life (naturally it should be tempered with Prudence but the impulse ought to be there)
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suppose you have noticed something you like about someone. How do you tell them? "I like it that you X" is a good start! And it will quite generally be well-received. You don't need to go past this.
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being really masterful in delivery is harder. here is the pith of it. people live in their own stories. a deeply-felt compliment will be one that lets them tell a better story about themselves.
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to do this thoroughly--and I'm not sure it can be done entirely consciously--one must have some intuition about another's story; show their intuition; and guide the complimentee to the new story this is a necessarily intimate exercise
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(delivering a mortal insult is a left-hand path mirror of this but is almost always despicable and if done without Charity and Grace corrodes the insulter more than the insulted)
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Replying to @eigenrobot
looking forward to the All Hallow's Eve Eigenzombot special thread on Delivering Mortal Insults with Charity and Grace
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it is a little spooky tbh but I trust you to use the knowledge responsibly
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@RemindMe_OfThis on October 30th
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the fear came back
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