Most people save compliments for the person's face. But praise actually hits hardest secondhand — when it gets back to someone that you said something good about them when you had nothing to gain. "Oh, Jordan mentioned you crushed that presentation" lands ten times harder than Jordan telling you directly, because there's no angle to it.
So when someone does good work, mention it to other people, not just them. It travels, it's credible in a way face-to-face praise never is, and you become the person who talks well about people behind their backs — which is a rare reputation to have.
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