# Long Good and Short Nice This is isomorphic to the idea that you should [[Be Kind not Nice]] that captures the idea that niceness is what you do to make people feel pleasant in the short term. From [[Anna Khachiyan - Reconstructing The Mystical Feminine From The Ashes Of “The Feminine Mystique”]] <!-- #mental-model --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Long+Good+and+Short+Nice) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Long+Good+and+Short+Nice) <!-- {BearID:0CC455F9-2A36-44F4-905F-EE3167071DF4-19569-0003CC7D584EC99F} -->