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Saying you should try to be kind sounds like a really silly and obvious thing to say. It’s the sort of thing you only need to tell little children to stop them being nasty in the playground. You know there are better things to be than kind. Like being creative, or the top dog.
In every life, we are constantly confronted with situations where a stranger will do something acutely irritating or discomforting: perhaps they’ll turn up their music too loudly on the train, or…
THE COOL MAN: For approximately 80 years, the notion of what a man should be like has been heavily influenced by the idea of ‘cool’. The cast of seductively cool figures…
It can be easy to imagine we possess reasonable social skills, because we know how to maintain conversation with strangers and – every now and then – manage to make a…