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6 Subtle Qualities That Make You A Great Person

If you do these things, great. If not, do more of them.

Eric S Burdon
6 min readJun 10, 2024

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We don’t always realize how great people are in our lives until they are gone. The impression that they left on us. How they make us feel.

But one other way that hides under the surface is when other people remark certain things when you bring up those people.

This occurred to me when I was tutoring Sunday morning and I was talking to the student about my parents. She brought up that I sounded close to my parents and she’s right.

I am fairly close to my parents. After all, I think they are great people.

But that interaction really showed how great they are in my life.

Of course, parents ideally want to be leaving a lasting impression on their children. They’re a pretty important figure to how someone’s life shapes up to be.

But we run into these kinds of figures all over the place. People who, similar to our parents, leave a lasting impression that influence our lives in various ways. They do this through a series of quirks or personality traits.

All of them working in tandem to leave a big impact on someone to the point that they don’t realize it until later on in life.

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Eric S Burdon
Eric S Burdon

Written by Eric S Burdon

I write (and sometimes do videos) about self-help for those who don't like self-help. Complete with the occasional memes and riffs on the industry that I love.

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