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Why Bother Being Nice?

Nov 17, 2021

27:51

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You Don't Have to Be Nice

01:36

Keeping Up Niceness Is a Mental Shift

01:40

Zola - The One Place to Start

03:17

Introduction

2min

The Cut, the Cut

2min

Niceness Is More Important Than Kindness

2min

You Don't Have to Be Nice

2min

Is the Internet Getting Meaner?

2min

Yoga and Therape

2min

Keeping Up Niceness Is a Mental Shift

2min

The Not Nice Feeling

2min

Zola - The One Place to Start

3min

10.

How to Grow Niceness in the Industrial Complex

2min

11.

Canadians Are the Most Brutal People in the World

2min

12.

You Should Be Nicer Than From People Who Are Comfortable, You Know?

2min

13.

Niceness Is More Than a Social Lubricant

2min

14.

How to Get What You Need Up Front

2min

15.

Nice or Not Nice?

2min

No matter who you are, inevitably there is someone telling you to “be nicer” or “stop being so nice”. Girlbosses preach that nice girls don't get the corner office, and yet Instagram slogans plead to "be nice." But what is niceness? Is it a virtue? A defense mechanism? A personality trait? And how can one try to be nice in a mean world? Avery Trufelman turns to Jonathan Van Ness for answers.

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Why Bother Being Nice?

You Don't Have to Be Nice

Keeping Up Niceness Is a Mental Shift

Zola - The One Place to Start

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