What I want to discuss here could be just an incorrect view to how the world of careers work but that is why I want to discuss it. It seems to me that career development sometimes encourages one particular impression that people should give in an interview. This impression includes things like showing confidence in terms of posture, movement patterns, facial expressions and words. It is true that as someone who is about to be interviewed, you just have to be yourself….or let me say: the best version of yourself. Now these are all very important things and they seem to work well for many people. Recently however, I attended a talk in the Student Leadership Conference by John Horn titled: “Achieving Infinite Kindness”. This talk really made me rethink the timing the impressions I want to portray to the people around me. The presentation included ideas such as “The case for kindness, how to be nice, practicing infinite kindness”. These were all behaviors that seemed to work very well AFTER you are employed. As obvious as this is, I did not realize that not all the impressions you give in an interview should be carried on after, specially when dealing with co-workers who are at similar positions. It was also mentioned that one of the best way to show acts of kindness is to give complements whenever appropriate, and one of the things needed to be able to give genuine complements is to be able to take a complement. It has always been uncomfortable for me to accept a compliment, it either felt like I do not deserve it, or that I deserve it, but I do not like how I am credited for it. My immediate reaction has always been to down play the complement and change the subject. After the conference I made a decision to try to accept compliments genuinely, and see where that would take me. It worked well! A lot of social awkwardness has been avoided. It is much easier now to give people compliments to people, and that helped me a lot in all my involvements on and off campus.