Morgan Housel

Bingo.

I was telling someone earlier today about someone who we both know, a mutual friend, who when I met this person, I came away and I was like, I think he really likes me.

Like, he really seems interested in me.

And then I had this moment, I'm like, I think actually he does that to everybody.

I think he has that effect on every single person that he meets.

Yeah.

They made me feel interesting.

And it's a great thing, what we were talking about earlier, of like...

no one's thinking about you as much as you are.

And so no one's paying that much attention to your aura or your charisma, or if anything, they might find it gross and egotistical.

But if that person makes you feel good about yourself and makes you feel good about the person who you are inside of your own head, people love that.

Politicians figured that out a long time ago.

Of making other people feel good about themselves.

When you meet someone, it's less about look how powerful I am and more about like...

liking themselves and making you feel good about yourself that's always been the trick wasn't that a descriptor of the people that had met Clinton he made me feel like I was the only person in the room that's exactly it yeah I was trying to think of who the other one I think it was Howard Dean someone said who the fuck's that or John Edwards who the fuck's that they both ran for presidency in the early 2000s John Edwards had a huge flame out but they were very talented of everyone they met they'd be like he really likes me magnetic he remembered me kind of thing that's always been a skill

Yeah.

I won't tell you who they are because they're still writing.

But I had a writing role model 10 or 15 years ago, a person I looked up to more than anybody.

And I wanted to emulate this person.

And not only the writing, but career-wise, I was like, I want to be this person.