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Eccentricity vs. Unacceptable Behavior: What's the Line? #shorts

4 Apr 2026 · 0 min

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A speaker distinguishes between harmless quirks and genuinely rude behavior, sharing how he was called stuck up at the University of Illinois for not greeting people in hallways. He learned social skills deliberately, comparing it to acting, and argues that good mentors give private feedback to help people grow.

Eccentric's fine. Eccentric's fine. Rude, filthy, dirty, slob, that's not fine. No, that's something where you, there's a little bit of conforming you've got to do on that. Then in the '80s when I was at University of Illinois, somebody thought I was stuck up because I didn't say hi to everybody when I passed them in the hall. Well, now I've learned to do that. You see, I have to learn social skills like being in a play. And this is where a good mentor pull you aside in private, tell you what you should do.