How to Encourage Others

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Often, the best way to do it is to issue a very specific compliment. People love specific compliments. Something like, say, “I really love how naturalistic and easygoing your writing is. You’re really great at capturing mundane emotions—you make common human experiences come alive in a way that’s unusual.” One thing worth remembering, here, is that people never receive feedback on their work (View Highlight)
Typically, people will not mind if you say something like this: “hey, have you considered trying x thing? I think you’d be great at it.” (View Highlight)
If there’s one self-improvement action you really believe in, like one thing you think people should commonly do, but don’t, there is nothing stopping you from just recommending it a lot, and this can be really effective (View Highlight)

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Often, the best way to do it is to issue a very specific compliment. People love specific compliments. Something like, say, “I really love how naturalistic and easygoing your writing is. You’re really great at capturing mundane emotions—you make common human experiences come alive in a way that’s unusual.” One thing worth remembering, here, is that people never receive feedback on their work (View Highlight)
Typically, people will not mind if you say something like this: “hey, have you considered trying x thing? I think you’d be great at it.” (View Highlight)
If there’s one self-improvement action you really believe in, like one thing you think people should commonly do, but don’t, there is nothing stopping you from just recommending it a lot, and this can be really effective (View Highlight)