Nicola Rippon ; It's a Poor Do When People Are Being Judged for Being 'Too Nice'. Perhaps We Could All Learn a Lesson From Them.

Derby Evening Telegraph › December 30, 2007

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It's a poor do when people are being judged for being 'too nice'. Perhaps we could all learn a lesson from them.

The recent final of the TV talent show X Factor, featured a young duo - a brother and sister known as Same Difference. Most people loved them because they were so nice. Yet a few others loathed them for the same reason.

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Nicola Rippon ; It's a Poor Do When People Are Being Judged for Being 'Too Nice'. Perhaps We Could All Learn a Lesson From Them.

So I'm wondering - what's so awful about being nice?

You might think that nice people are appreciated. But nice, it seems, is an underrated concept. Abhorred rather than applauded, nice people are uncool.

If they'r...

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