# Shane Parrish - Brain Food: Kind vs. Nice (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article4.6bc1851654a0.png) ## Highlights - “Another thing that’s very important to me is kindness, and kindness over niceness. The easiest example I can give is that a kind person will tell you, you have spinach in your teeth and a nice person won’t because it’s uncomfortable, right? - "They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same." — often attributed to Kurt Cobain