Psychology says people who light up every room they enter aren’t naturally cheerful or born confident — they’re usually the ones who decided, somewhere along the way, that other people deserved to feel seen
We tend to assume the people who light up every room were simply born that way: naturally sunny, effortlessly confident, gifted with a warmth the rest of us can only envy. Psychology suggests the truth is less about temperament than about a choice. Somewhere along the way, these …