Emma Chamberlain

We like honesty.

So I know that your gut might be tricking you into thinking that agreeing with everything is the move because it, in theory, should make us more likable.

But something that I do is remind myself that standing firm in who I am is actually going to make me more attractive and interesting.

And you know what?

Worst case scenario, worst case scenario, it doesn't.

Worst case scenario, someone would prefer me if I did just agree with everything that they had to say.

Well, guess what?

That's not somebody I want to be around.

I don't want to be around somebody who has such like a fragile sense of themselves that if I disagree with them on like whether or not a restaurant is good, they actually get butt hurt.

Or if I don't like their favorite song, they get butt hurt.

I would rather be myself and have someone get offended that I disagreed with them and then realize, ooh, I don't want to be around this person than just agree with everything, suppress my sense of self, and then, I don't know, continue to be friends with somebody who has kind of a negative trait that I could have picked up on and then ultimately...

gotten away from if I had seen it.

To me, it's a win-win situation.

Even if the worst case scenario comes to pass, that's still not even really that bad.

Maybe uncomfortable for a second.

Well, now you know that this person kind of sucks.

You know what I mean?

I think it's a snowball effect in the way that perhaps you start by being confident in your beliefs, in your opinions, in front of people that you're really comfortable with.

and see how it goes over.

And you'll probably notice it doesn't go as bad as you think it would.