In lieu of making anything original, I think I’ll link to my friend Every-day Prospects’ blog, where I’m featured talking about how hard it is to be charming. Find me here.
An excerpt from her post, which is, as usual, measured and intelligent:
“It’s not that I don’t think writing and being good with people are valuable skills. I am convinced that they are very valuable indeed. You don’t decide to become a writer/social worker if you think that those ‘soft’ skills are too soft to shape real things. I believe deeply in the practical worth of kindness and good communication skills—deeply enough to try and make them into a career that’s good for the world and good for me. It’s just that those skills…you can’t catalogue them. You can’t quantify them and you can’t show them off at a party.”
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