We all have that one friend who's an introvert. The one who doesn't reveal much and shies away from attention. The one who prefers not to say a word and would rather stay by the side, observing everyone else. The mysterious one who exudes an aura of silence so loud it's deafening. Perhaps calling them introverted might be an understatement altogether. Yet, when introverts show affection, they do it with all of their hearts, sometimes even more so than the extroverts. Want to know if you've won the affections of an introvert? Here are some sure-fire ways to tell.

1. They initiate conversations with you

It takes a lot from them, but they do it anyway. If they see you as someone who's worthy of their time, you'll know because introverts initiate very few conversations with very few people. Introverts hate small talk, but if they're willing to engage in them with you from time to time, you know what it means.

2. They care about your feelings

In fact, they not only care, they care a lot. Compared to their extroverted counterparts, they look out for you in their own quiet, subtle way--no fanfare involved. When you're sick, they'll buy you herbal tea and quietly place it somewhere you'll definitely see it. They notice all the things that make you you, and they remember the little things you say. Because introverts don't expend energy going to many different social gatherings, they devote their attention towards you. They sacrifice their precious alone time for you and they do so with nary a complaint. Introverts are some of the most sensitive people around, and if they focus their attention on you, chances are, the whole world is going to know too.

3. They go out of their comfort zones for you

They don't rely on mere words or sweet talk to show you their affections--they use actions to do so. They leave their comfort zones for you, and they do so voluntarily. They may hate crowds and abhor noisy places, but if you so much as hint to them that you're interested, they'd brave all that for you and more. They might even assume the role of an entertainer if the situation calls for it. This willingness to deviate away from their usual selves only goes to show how important you are to them.

4. They let you into their lives

They let you into territory no one else has gone before. They tell you about their dogs, their saddest childhood memories, their deepest regrets, their dreams and aspirations. Most notably, they tell you about their insecurities. They want you by their side and they're not afraid to show it. These are an introvert’s ways of showing trust in a person, and if you actually know all this information about their lives, it's no easy feat and it's also the clearest indication that they genuinely care for and like you.

5. They see you as their other half

They're not going to do anything without first thinking about you. Whether it's an event that's caught their eye, a movie that's just been released, a song they heard or even a quote they saw, you'll be the first thing to pop into their minds. If an introvert likes you, you are indeed one lucky soul.

Seriously, the accuracy of these...

1. Maybelline: "Maybe You're Born With It, Maybe It's Photoshop."

3. Sephora Collection: "We Know You Millennials Are Too Poor For The Shit We Have In Here But Buy Our Shit Anyways"

6. Becca: "We're Riding This Highlighter Trend To The Bitter End"

10. Dior: "Sephora Security Team Is Watching You, B-tch"

13. Tom Ford: "Because Paying For Louboutin Lipstick Is Where You Draw The Line"

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We millennials are a restless bunch. We dream of cities beyond the borders of our tiny country and quaint little towns with their quaint little shops. We fantasize about hiking up mountains and taking a dip in crystal clear seas. We're restless for travel and are constantly in wait for our next big adventure. And when that time comes, when the tickets are booked and the arrangements have been made, we tend to go about the trip in a way that compromises on our experience. We don't get the most out of the trip we've saved long and hard for. There's a ton of advice out there on how to make the best of your trip, but not all of them are great--at least not to me. Here are some choice ones I think you're much better off ignoring.

1. "Plan plan plan."

Planning in itself isn't bad. In certain situations, it can be absolutely necessary, like when there are a million things you want to accomplish but only 2 days to do it in. If that's the case, plan away. Don't let me get in your way. But if you have the time (and money) to spare, ditch the detailed itinerary that tells you where you should be at exactly what time, and exchange that for some good ol' spontaneity. Between going to all the attractions you already know are good and eating all the food you already know are the best in the country, there's very little space for this new city to surprise you. In a time when there's an app or a website that give you reviews and ratings on every part of your travel experience, it might feel like an experience is only worth having if it's the best--or at least, really good. But you don't need to experience the best of everything. If what you're seeking is an authentic, live-like-a-local experience of the country, the best things to eat, best places to shop at, or best things to do in a country are not necessarily a true reflection of the place (*cough* Marina Bay Sands, *cough*). For a truly authentic and memorable experience, get lost. Literally get off the path well traveled. Try things, even if there's a chance it won't be good. Who knows, it just might be the most memorable part of your trip. After all, the best things in life are rarely planned.

2. "Take lots of photos."

Whenever we take a trip, one of the first things to go into our luggage are our cameras, followed by our chargers. That, or we clear out space in our phones to make way for new photos and new memories. You can't go on a trip and not take photos, right? I think if anything, taking photos takes away from our experience and hinders us from making memories. These days, it seems like we experience every special moment through some type of screen. We spend more time photographing a beautiful landscape than we do just reveling in it. We take pictures of food without appreciation of the culture surrounding it. We visit beautiful places only to take photos of it. You didn't come all this way and spend all that money just to experience a country through a screen. Set aside your phones. It's more important to capture these memories in your head than it is to have them stored away in your phone.

3. "Always go with someone."

People often say to travel in a group--the more the merrier. I disagree. Not only do you waste precious time in a new, exciting place waiting around for people to wake up and get ready, you constantly have to accommodate other people and there's always the possibility of conflict when you're all in each other's faces all day, for weeks. Instead of spending time grabbing a bunch of people to go overseas with you, consider traveling solo. Not only do you get the time and space to contemplate your life and yourself, you also get to meet new, interesting people, and soak up a new culture at your own pace.

4. "Always trust what the locals tell you."

While it's probably safe to trust a local to tell you where to get great food, you might want to think twice when it comes to places to visit. Many locals assume tourists only want to visit the same few places and recommend only what they think you like--which may be far from what you're actually looking for. Always give places a quick check online or ask around more before jumping on a local's recommendations!

5. "If you can’t speak their language, you shouldn't go there."

It can be daunting to visit someplace where you can't communicate well--or at all. How do I order food? What if I need to go to the restroom? While these are real concerns, don't write off a travel destination out of fear you'll be completely helpless once you get there. There are many ways to work around this problem--you just have to be creative about it. You can do your homework in advance and figure out what apps would be handy to have while there. Translation and travel apps are usually a big help. If all else fails, there's always pointing. Just make sure you have something to point to, like an address (hotels and places of interest), pictures and logos. There's always a workaround. It just takes a little more effort.

All couples fight. Healthy couples fight. Unhealthy couples fight. When you bring two different people together, whether into a friendship or a romantic relationship, it's bound to happen. No two people are completely alike in the way they think, their personalities, their likes and dislikes, so disagreements are really just a matter of time. While fights between partners is nothing to raise any eyebrows about, there are good fighting habits and there are bad ones. Good habits make your relationship stronger while bad ones wear down not just the relationship, but both of you as individuals. Here are some good habits you should pick up when it comes to fighting with the one you love.

1. Pick your battles

Before you fight, pause and consider if the issue at hand is even worth fighting about. Just because you're upset doesn't mean there are real issues or principles at stake. None of us are above a little pettiness and we all have bad days when the littlest of things can set us off. So, ask yourself if the issue is worth fighting about. If this were the fight to break you up (it could happen), would it be worth it? Oftentimes, we pick fights over the most trivial of things and it's only when it's too late, when we and our partners are both hurting from the fight when we realize we're fighting over something really stupid. So, pick your battles, and master the art of letting things go to save yourself and your partner from a world of unnecessary pain.

2. Fight the problem, not the person

Bear in mind that when arguing, winning is not the goal--fixing the problem is. In the heat of an argument, we tend to lose sight of what the actual problem is, veering off course and attacking our partners by bringing up the past, throwing out accusations and firing off a whole bunch of hurtful words. Not only does the problem remain unsolved, both sides wind up even more upset than when they started and bruised blacker and bluer for it.

3. Never deal in absolutes

When fighting, watch your language--especially with your usage of the words 'never' and 'always', as in "you're always lying" or "you never support me". These words tend to be used and abused when we fight, and it's especially hurtful because it not only discounts all the times your partner has done right or made the effort to do so, it also has them thinking that's what you think of them, even if those statements aren't true and you only said it in a fit of anger.

4. Listen with an open mind

When fighting, most of us default into thinking we're right. We know why we're upset and the reasons are rock solid. Our game plan going into the fight is to make clear our feelings and our perspectives, and to get our partners to understand our point of view. The thing is our partners probably think the same, and just like us, they're sure their reasons are bulletproof. In my experience, in most situations, both parties have valid reasons for doing what they did. So, hear each other out and understand each others' motivations. Even if things didn't come out right, most times, they came from a place of love and you can only know this if you hear each other out with an open mind.

5. Don't talk sh-t about your partner

What you keep telling yourself, you start to believe. Likewise, talking sh-t about your partner eventually affects the way you see them, which in turn colours your interaction with them, and consequently, hurts your relationship.

6. Don't b-tch about your partner to your friends (too much)

When we run into trouble in our relationships, the first thing many of us do is whip out our phones and start b-tching to our friends. We rant and we build a case against our partners, telling these stories from our biased point of view, even exaggerating some of the details to pull our friends over to our side. And it feels good to get it off our chests and to have our feelings and reasons validated. The thing is when our partners do something nice or sweet for us, not all of us relay that information to our friends, leaving them with this one-dimensional, terrible view of our partners. Many of the times, we wind up forgiving our partners, because in the grand scheme of all the good things they've done and added to our lives, the bad stuff amounts to little. But our friends don't have that full picture and may not forgive them, leading to all sorts of other tensions and drama.

Throughout the world and across a variety of industries, millions of people are working to develop new companies and build them into successful global ventures. But what does it take to build a successful new company? What does success even mean? Here, we look to the young founders of hyper-successful startups to try and reach an answer, or at least, to begin to ask the right questions.

1. Evan Spiegel, Snapchat

The co-founder and CEO of Snapchat, 26-year-old Evan Spiegel created the messaging app while still a student at Stanford University.

2. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook

An entrepreneur in a league of his own, Mark Zuckerberg, now 32, launched Facebook in 2004 from his dorm room at Harvard University. The rest is history.

3. Evan Sharp, Pinterest

A graduate of the University of Chicago and Columbia’s School of Architecture, 34-year-old Evan Sharp co-founded Pinterest while working as a product designer at Facebook.

4. Garrett Camp, Uber

38-year-old Garrett Camp founded the popular web discovery engine StumbleUpon while in graduate school, before developing the immensely popular ride-sharing app Uber in 2009.

5. Mike Cannon-Brooks, Atlassian

Mike Cannon-Brookes, 36, founded enterprise software company Atlassian along with Scott Farquhar in 2002. The pair are often referred to as “accidental billionaries,” as their only hope in starting the company was to earn the average starting salary without having to work for a large firm.

6. Brian Chesky, Airbnb

Brian Chesky, 35, started Airbnb in 2007 after having trouble affording increasingly expensive San Francisco rent. After learning that all the hotel rooms in SF were booked during a popular conference, Chesky and his roommate put their apartment up for rent online, sparking a revolution.

7. Sean Parker, Napster

At 16, the FBI raided Sean Parker’s house for hacking into a Fortune 500 company. At 20, Parker founded Napster with Shawn Fanning. At 25, Parker became the first president of Facebook. After working to revolutionise multiple industries, Parker now focuses his efforts on philanthropy and investments.

8. Robert Pera, Ubiquiti Networks

Many may recognise Robert Pera, 38, as the owner of the Memphis Grizzlies (an NBA Basketball team), but his true achievement has been building Ubiquiti. Ubiquiti is a global wireless communication company currently worth over $4 billion.

9. Markus Persson, Minecraft

Also known as ‘Notch’ on Twitter, 37-year-old Markus Persson is the Swedish video game designer and programmer who created the cross-platform worldwide phenomenon Minecraft.

10. Jack Dorsey, Twitter and Square

Jack Dorsey, 39, came up with the idea for Twitter while a student at New York University, but waited for years, until 2006, to launch the service. He couldn’t stop and followed up with mobile payment app Square in 2010.

11. Jan Koum, WhatsApp

The oldest entrepreneur on our list, Jan Koum, 40, founded the cross-platform messaging client WhatsApp in 2009. The service has now grown to over one billion users. This article was originally posted on Vulcan Post. 

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” - George Orwell

The Generation Generation

Let’s get one thing crystal clear right off the bat: Generations are a load of bull. They don’t exist. We made them up. “Generations” are labels, placed on groups of people within seemingly arbitrarily-defined age markers. The Silent Generation. Baby Boomers. Gen X. Gen Y. The Strawberry Generation. Etc. These labels are nothing more than social constructs, but why did society deem fit to construct them as such? “Baby Boomers” is no mystery, really. It was an obvious, on-the-nose name for the children born in the post-war population boom. “Gen X” is where things get interesting. The term Generation X was popularized by Canadian author Douglas Coupland in his 1991 book Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. The book was a huge success, and earned Coupland heaps of money and fame. So, what happens when something becomes successful? Everyone tries to cash in. After Coupland broke that particular floodgate, writers all over the world poured in and raced to come up with the next big “generation”. Thus, you might notice that the generation coming after Gen X seems to have many, many names. Gen Y (how creative), Echo Boomers, Millennials, Generation Me, Strawberry Generation, and so on. Believe it or not, these all refer to the SAME generation. The Strawberry Generation, specifically, was named by the Taiwanese, and is used only in Asia. So, the quick answer to the question of why we’re called The Strawberry Generation – like every other post-Coupland generation label, writers invented the name to get rich. We are the Generation Generation.

Kids These Days

As George Orwell so succinctly put in the introductory quote, generational conflict is nothing new. Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates once said, “The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.” Sound familiar? We’ve been talking smack about our juniors for thousands of years, and it’s not going to stop. The difference between us and Socrates is that we now have the internet, the forest to our smack-talk’s fire. Such dismissive and reductive thinking towards younger generations can be attributed to juvenoia, a term coined by sociologist David Finkelhor to describe an exaggerated fear about the things that influence “kids these days”. We hate younger generations, and come up with myriad ways to insult “kids these days”, but it wasn’t until Coupland struck gold with his generational labelling that we put two and two together, and starting labelling generations in insulting ways. Thus, the “Strawberry Generation” was born. Notice how previous generations never had derogatory names, until after Gen X? It’s not because there’s nothing to insult about them, it’s because no one bothered back then, and even if they did, the internet didn’t exist. If we wanted to apply the same toxic attitude towards older generations, we could! The Warmongers – the generation that lived through one world war and thought “let’s have another”! The Not-my-fault Generation – the generation that tanked the economy, destroyed the environment, and blamed the young people for all their problems. The Insufferables – the generation that refuses to let go of the past and thinks everything sucks now just because MTV stopped playing music videos. Wants to live in the 80s but still buys every new iPhone. I could go on all day, but I won’t, because such labelling is unreasonably judgmental and unfair. They are blanket statements made to judge and stereotype entire groups of diverse individuals connected by nothing more than their age. And that is exactly what the Strawberry Generation label is.

What’s the Big Deal?

Some of you might be thinking, stereotypes exist for a reason. Maybe I shouldn’t be so sensitive… like a strawberry (heyyy-ohh!!). I’ll admit, stereotypes are often true to a certain extent, and you can call me a Strawberry all you want. The problem is that when harmful stereotypes are widely perpetuated, they lead to confirmation bias and self-fulfilling prophecy. For example, look at the problem of systemic racism in the United States. It might be true that black people generally receive less education and are more prone to crime, but this negative stereotype adopted by law enforcement and the public at large leads to a social climate that practically ensures that black people are kept where they are. If employers were less willing to hire black people, would they not more easily resort to crime? If police, influenced by stereotypes, are more likely to shoot a black person, can you blame black people for disrespecting authority? Labelling groups of people can be useful in society if these labels are informative, like, say, the Internet Generation. Such a label allows companies to more accurately cater to the needs of a group of people more inclined to using the Internet. However, labels like Strawberry Generation, or Generation Me, contain no useful information about anyone. They are used simply to insult, and to promote negative, self-fulfilling stereotypes. So, when it’s our turn to spread some insulting label about the next “generation”, do society a solid, and rise above that noise.