Some of your best upgrades will come from people you didn’t like at first.

First impressions are mostly pattern matching done at speed, and they are wrong often enough to be unreliable. The people who irritate you sometimes do it because they operate differently, and difference is where you learn something. Comfort comes from similarity, which teaches you nothing new. Some of the most useful people in your life started as a mild annoyance.

Pick one person you have written off without much evidence and give them a real conversation. Ask about something they are good at. Decide afterward, with actual information, whether the first read holds.