Be the friend whose silence people trust as much as their words.

Being easy to talk to is half of it. The other half is what happens to a thing after it has been told to you, and most people have learned to guess which friends are which. Silence that can be trusted is not shyness or secrecy. It is the habit of letting something stay where it was put.

There will be a moment this week when repeating something would make you briefly interesting. Let it pass. Nobody will know you did it, which is rather the point, and the people who matter will keep handing you things.