“I love people. I just can’t stand most of them.”
I hear some version of this constantly, and almost always from the same kind of person. The one who remembers everyone’s birthday. The one who catches the tense moment in the meeting and smooths it before anyone else registers it. The one friends describe as so easy to be around.
If that’s you, you probably know the other half too: the days you’d like to walk directly into the sea to get away from every single one of them.
Those two things are connected. There’s a piece of math running underneath them, and once you see it, you’ll see it everywhere.
The Equation
Here’s how it goes. See if you can find yourself in it.
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