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The art of looking like someone's day won't get worse by talking to you.
means The quality of seeming easy, friendly, and safe to talk to or interrupt.
from Built from 'approach' — from Old French aprochier, tracing back to Late Latin appropiare, 'to draw near,' rooted in prope, 'near' — plus the suffix '-ability,' marking a capacity or fitness for something. So the word is literally engineered to mean 'near-able-ness': the degree to which someone can be safely closed the distance to.
- not niceness
- you can be approachable and still say no
- body language
- uncrossed arms do more than any smile
- leadership myth
- power usually kills it first
- paradox
- the people who need it least often have it most