Every compliment gets a joke thrown over it before it can land.
Someone says the nice thing and you have already answered before they finish — it was on sale, it was luck, you look terrible actually, it took four tries. The joke is usually good. That is what makes it hard to see as a reflex. But watch what it does: it takes a moment where someone was reaching toward you and converts it into a moment where everybody laughs and nobody has to be sincere. You are not fishing, and you are not falsely modest. You genuinely cannot hold the thing while it is being said. The Eye notices that people have started praising you less — not because they think less of you, but because you have made it consistently unrewarding, and after a while they just stop trying.
Get your read — free on iPhoneTry saying thank you and then nothing else. The silence after it is the whole exercise, and it will feel much longer than it is.
you turn every compliment into a joke so fast that nobody has landed one on you in years.
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