Re:Life Changing Books on Sex and Relationships
by jmathai on Friday December 08, 2023 @11:24AM
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This is one of the big 5 personality traits (agreeableness).
I found that these cover most everything and the combinations are the most interesting and useful.
As I get older, I find that people closer to the middle across these traits are the ones I enjoy being around.
This helps me know what areas I can work on to be a more pleasant human being :)
Key idea in the book is that a lot of argument and disagreement arises from mismatched social attitudes/communication between men & women, similar to how cross-cultural assumptions can cause offense.
Presents a model that (typically) men socialise with a focus more on competition, independence, and status, whereas (typically) woman socialise with a focus on cooperation, inter-dependence, and intimacy.