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When you call someone earnest, you're making a statement about their motives. It means both that they're doing something for the right reasons, and that they're trying as hard as they can. If we imagine motives as vectors, it means both the direction and the magnitude are right. Though these are of course related: when people are doing something for the right reasons, they try harder.

Earnestness

paulgraham.com

Traumatic invalidation may occur only once, as when a mother refuses to believe that her daughter is telling the truth when she reports sexual abuse, or when a witness falsely testifies that a person committed a crime he did not commit. It can be an accumulation of pervasive misreading of emotions by others, such as when someone insists incorrectly that a person is angry, jealous, afraid, or lying or insists that the person has internal motives he or she doesn’t have. Trauma is most likely when these actions make the individual feel like an outsider.

Building a Life Worth Living

Marsha M. Linehan

At Berkshire, we believe in Charlie's dictum - "Just tell me the bad news; the good news will take care of itself" - and that is the behavior we expect of our managers when they are reporting to us.

Chairman's Letter - 1995

berkshirehathaway.com

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