<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Amen. I too learned early in life that becoming invested in my belief about how a person was vs reality was a losing strategy.</p><p>Brooks is about tools to look inside someone deeply which always leaves you better off when dealing with them.</p><p>Completely keeping people on the "outside" is a strategy I tried in my youth but it did not serve me well. Since that time I've worked on awareness and what it tells me to inform my choices.</p>
