Note: Research suggests that asking for favors might improve people's perception of you due to cognitive dissonance. We try to justify to ourselves why we did a favor for a stranger by assuming it must be because he's a great person. So Ben's rival, according to this theory, started liking Ben because his brain wanted to justify why he was helping his greatest enemy by assuming good things about Ben. That's why the video says that if you want to find friends who also code, try using your error message as a conversation starter to get a good first impression.
Note: Research suggests that asking for favors might improve people's perception of you due to cognitive dissonance.
We try to justify to ourselves why we did a favor for a stranger by assuming it must be because he's a great person.
So Ben's rival, according to this theory, started liking Ben because his brain wanted to justify why he was helping his greatest enemy by assuming good things about Ben.
That's why the video says that if you want to find friends who also code, try using your error message as a conversation starter to get a good first impression.