A short YouTube clip (Kevin 'KD' Dorsey) highlighting how the phrasing of compliments—particularly using first-person ownership and linguistic specificity—makes recognition feel more sincere and impactful (e.g., “I love your hat” lands harder than “nice hat, Katie”).
One of the most interesting things is in the first two chapters, and he talks about, like, linguistics and something I observed when you were kind of giving me that feedback is he mentions the importance of specificity and your proximity to the language. So we use first person, second person, third person language. When I say, nice hat, Katie, it's like, okay, that feels good. If I say, I love your hat, that's a little bit more impactful because I am now putting myself proximity. Like, the language is closer to the action. So when you use more specific specificity and when you take ownership of the compliment itself, it actually lands harder for people and comes across as more sincere.
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