Staying unimpressed by flashy people protects you from half the scams you’ll ever meet.

Display is cheap and it is often the product. Confidence, expensive things and a good story can all be rented for exactly as long as it takes to convince you, which is why they show up first in almost every bad deal. Being hard to dazzle is not cynicism. It just means the evidence has to arrive before the admiration does.

When someone impresses you quickly, slow down and ask what you actually know about them. Look at what they have finished rather than what they are describing. If there is pressure to decide before you can check, that pressure is the information you were looking for.