20 signs you’re dealing with a shallow person

How to spot a book with no pages.

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Here’s a story. Jessica gets out of her SUV. She walks up to a local construction worker. She takes his drill, borrows his helmet, and asks her boyfriend to take a picture. She then gives the stuff back and gets back into the SUV. 13 minutes later, she posts the picture under hashtags #community #communitysunday #helpingpeople #gowomen. It’s been documented, people.

Yep, shallow people are often skilled at masking themselves as thought leaders, social justice perpetuators or devoted servants.

I’m not talking about intelligence. I’m talking about substance. The underlying value system that truly defines what a person is like.

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Here are a few of such choices.

1. Their texting habits are weird and ambiguous

I genuinely believe that most people of substance are readers, or at least have a solid history of reading from their younger, formative years. Hence, they form an intimate relationship with the…