🦄 Startups & VC 7h ago · Christian Kelly

There’s a specific kind of adult who can sense when a room is about to shift in mood three seconds before anyone else notices, and it isn’t intuition, it’s a skill they developed as a child in a house where missing that signal cost them something.

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There’s a specific kind of adult who can sense when a room is about to shift in mood three seconds before anyone else notices, and it isn’t intuition, it’s a skill they developed as a child in a house where missing that signal cost them something.
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Most people file this under intuition. The friend who can tell when the host is getting irritated with her husband before anyone else registers the shift. The colleague who knows the meeting is about to turn hostile a full beat before the first sharp word. We call it emotional intelligence, a gift, a sixth sense. It is none of those things.
It is a skill. A very specific one, learned young, in conditions that required it.
The conventional wisdom says some people are simply born more attuned. The

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