The Golden Retriever
Warm, fast, unembarrassed. Enthusiasm is your whole strategy and it works.
- high energy
- exclamation marks
- sincere
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The Golden Retriever
Warm, fast, unembarrassed. Enthusiasm is your whole strategy and it works.
You match every exclamation mark and raise it one. The risk is doing all the emotional labour in the thread; the fix is occasionally letting a message land without rescuing it.
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What people ask about The Golden Retriever
- What does it mean to be The Golden Retriever?
- Warm, fast, unembarrassed. Enthusiasm is your whole strategy and it works. You match every exclamation mark and raise it one. The risk is doing all the emotional labour in the thread; the fix is occasionally letting a message land without rescuing it.
- How do I know if I'm The Golden Retriever?
- Take the 45-second quiz. Six questions, three options each, and each option is a real text rather than a description of one. You pick what you would actually send, and the result is whichever of the six archetypes your answers land closest to.
- Can The Golden Retriever change?
- Yes, and it usually does. Quiz answers are somewhat aspirational, so once you start uploading real conversations, your profile shifts toward how you actually text and the replies get more accurate with it.