first impressions

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First impressions matter. The very first context which you interact, or are understood, forms a quite sticky impression, a lens through which all future interactions are interpreted. Sometimes, the rest of your relationship, if it gets to a wrong start, is spent overcoming that initial impression. Most times, it never changes at all. If you know someone to be socially adept, or pretty, eye contact and a compliment might be positive, well-calibrated, flirtatious? If you're wary for that same person because they're creepy, well, human resources? Cue the meme. The rationalists like to call this one trapped priors. I will say this is not strictly true — in my experience, I've found that only the first deep impression matters. One of now my closest friends thought me cold, dismissive and 'holier-than-thou' when we first met (I know, it's a problem, I'm working on it.) In contrast, one person for whom I still can't quite get over a base-level annoyance for, I had a really positive but very b

first impressions First impressions matter. The very first context in which you interact, or are understood, forms a quite sticky impression, a lens through which all future interactions are interpreted. Sometimes, the rest of your relationship, if it gets to a wrong start, is spent overcoming that initial impression. Most times, it never changes at all. If you know someone to be socially adept, or pretty, eye contact and a compliment might be positive, well-calibrated, flirtatious? If you're wary for that same person because they're creepy, well, human resources? Cue the meme. The rationalist

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