Signaling pleasantness is sometimes near to signalling low status. In some situations it will give you benefits in others it might not.
One the web you find plenty of material that recommends that you will get more social success by being more confident. One way to be confident is to go the ask road instead of the guess road.
I have read a lot of self help and didn’t come across one that substantially focuses on acting in a guess culture way.
Signaling pleasantness is sometimes near to signalling low status. In some situations it will give you benefits in others it might not.
One the web you find plenty of material that recommends that you will get more social success by being more confident. One way to be confident is to go the ask road instead of the guess road.
I have read a lot of self help and didn’t come across one that substantially focuses on acting in a guess culture way.
Quite so. Which is why constraining yourself to honesty precludes you from always choosing the personally beneficial path.