Cultivated friendliness can become a near-genius social skill

Evidence

Whether it was natural or cultivated, as Al Smith executed the contracts, he displayed a gift for getting along with people that was so highly developed as to be almost genius. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 508

Categorization

• SEED: The question of whether obligingness is trained or innate in politicians is an essay angle about how power is built from likability down.
• XREF: connects to: Friendship’s transparent motives can extend into wider social settings. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1516; Sociability has upper and lower thresholds for individual input — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2152

Broader Connections

• Friendship’s transparent motives can extend into wider social settings. #expands (0.85) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1516
• Sociability has upper and lower thresholds for individual input #qualifies (0.72) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2152