John Stokvis @johnstokvis.com · Mar 28 1 / 3
There’s a throughline in these 3 seemingly disparate @visakanv.com tweets: specificity. Lots of latent fears prevent people from being specific: - of loneliness - of rejection - of failure Counterintuitively the opposite is true. Specificity makes connection, acceptance, and success more likely.
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It’s natural to think that by being specific we are excluding certain experiences. By not being universal, appealing to a “common humanity” we are leaving some connections on the table. But as with anything there are tradeoffs. And we rarely focus on the positive tradeoff of specifics - resonance