Everyone thinks they know what they value in other people. Questions like, "what traits to you value most in a friend" always have smushygushy answers like "authenticity" or "honesty" or "humor" or whatever. But really, how do you even measure any of those things? How can you analyze a person's level of authenticity? TRULY measure honesty? Humor is subjective. I mean, c'mon.
What we really mean is that we like people who are like us in ways that make us feel good about ourselves, or who are different from us in complimentary ways that also make us feel good about ourselves.
We like people that make us feel good about being their friends.
We like people we like.
The end.
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