Summary:
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Natural smilers exhibit genuine warmth, emotional intelligence, confidence, optimism, empathy, social ease, and consciousness of body language.
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They possess resilience, open-mindedness, generosity of spirit, and habitual kindness towards strangers, creating a positive social environment.
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Their smiles are not just gestures, but reflections of their underlying personality traits that make them open, warm, and empathetic individuals.
Sometimes all a person needs is a mere smile to cheer his/her whole day. Although it may just pass as a mere gesture, smiling at people who are not acquainted with you may in fact reveal underlying personality traits based on empathy, self-confidence, and the ability to understand emotions. Other individuals do not even notice that they do it, it is just in their character. These people are more likely to move in the world wide being open and warm making people have positive impressions wherever they go. Following is a list of eleven common personality traits in those that smile at strangers as a natural behavior.
Genuine Warmth
Naturally smiling people are very warm in nature. They sincerely and naturally rather than calculated or artificial in the smiling they do. This warmth will provide others with a feeling that they are at ease and are welcome even when they come by, in passing a person in a hall way or even waiting in a queue.
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Emotional Intelligence
They tend to be highly emotionally intelligent that is, they understand how subtle gestures may impact other people. A smile would help people to relax or cheer up someone. They are sensitive to emotional tones hence they have the instinctive response to use a positive expression, which forms a more enjoyable social environment.
Confidence in Themselves
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It takes some unspoken type of confidence to smile at a stranger. They are not so insecure to be afraid of being judged and rejected. They have confidence in themselves thus enabling them to be friendly to anyone without fearing much about how they will be viewed.
Optimistic Outlook
The natural smilers usually have a positive view of life. They will look forward to positively impacting in social circumstances as opposed to negativity. This optimistic thinking will help them to be open to the world rather than being suspicious.
Strong Empathy
This habit largely involves empathy. Individuals with a smile to strangers usually envision the possible mood of the people. The fact that they do not know about the story of a person, still, they understand that everyone is facing unseen problems, and they can help a person with the smallest act of goodness.
Social Ease
They tend to like social parties who can be as large or as small. This social comfort enables them to communicate casually and effortlessly and not to think too hard about the simple conversations. Their smiles are not staged or forced as they are relaxed.
Consciousness of Body Language
People who smile at strangers have the understanding of non-verbal communication. They are aware of what facial expressions and posture tell. They ensure another individual is approachable and friendly with a giving response, which can in most cases prompt respectful and nice treatment to follow.
Resilience
Interestingly, there are several natural smilers who are tough guys. He or she might have had some problems but they decide to live gracefully. Rather than letting hardships to use them, they have a mindset that would involve propagation of positivity in small, meaningful ways.
Open-Mindedness
Still smiling in the face of strangers means that a person is open to new experience and other people. Such individuals can easily not presume that someone who cannot be known is bad. They are open minded and therefore they are encouraged to be curious and not to judge.
Generosity of Spirit
A smile does not cost anyone anything but rewards them. Volunteers have a generous heart and are likely to give it freely. They are fond of making the environment pleasing, and they are ready to give out little details that make the common rooms friendlier.
Habitual Kindness
Most importantly, of course, smiling at strangers is a habit that is often associated with doing kind things on a daily basis. It is not a show just a regular fashion of dealing with the world. This humble custom gradually influences the opinions of people towards them, and in most cases kindly returns.
