spikiness - by Nix 🕊 - starting from nix
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belonging and not belonging
The New Novel, Winslow Homer - 1877 Most personality traits don’t have ‘valence’ — they’re not positive or negative. They are just traits. Much depends on how society categorizes the trait as valuable, useful, or positive. It can flux across different social groups. Conscientious and analytical, for example, are traits that are pretty universally strong/accepted. Other traits fall somewhere in the grey area. Sometimes valued sometimes not depending on the beholder: introversion, openness, directness, strength of will. That’s why if you’re in the wrong social group, workplace, or even…
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