> The best way to be liked is to just agree with everyone.

This view is incomplete. Human relationships are build on connections. You can create those connections by agreeing with people, but that creates a very swallow connection.

An example of connections is networking: you mingle in a group of people at an event and start or join conversations. Everyone at the event starts the shared experience of being there. After a conversation, you might find someone that works in the same city you do, that adds another connection. And so on.

:)

Maybe I'm different, but people who just agree with me are uninteresting.

The best way to avoid being disliked is to be uninteresting.

But I decided not to take the article personally because they’re not claiming something universal about outsiders.