Article: Kill Being Nice

You may or may not have already realized that being nice does not get you very far in life. If this is something you suffer from, you may have accepted it as a part of your personality. So, let us investigate this business of being nice. Is “being nice” a mood or a part of personality? I propose to you that there is no such thing called personality, that is fixed, that is natural and about which you can do nothing much. What you may call personality is really a jumble of opinions about how life is, and how life is going to be...