This video from The School of Life is about over-friendliness: friendliness is a great virtue, and over-friendliness can still be an unexpected problem. It describes a pattern of behaviour that comes from good motives and can land badly. If you are one of the over friendly people, it may be for you.
From the video description: “Friendliness is a great virtue. Over-friendliness can be an unexpected problem.”
Further reading
The description continues with an excerpt from The School of Life’s writing on the subject: “There is a particularly poignant way to be a social disaster: through over-friendliness, a pattern of behaviour driven by the very best of motives which ends up feeling as irritating as outright rudeness. We meet the over friendly people at the office, laughing at the jokes of the senior management; behind the desk at the hotel, wishing Sir or Madam a highly enjoyable stay and across the table on a first date, lavishly endorsing their would-be partner’s every opinion about recent books and films.…”
You can read more on this and other topics in The School of Life’s articles.
