7 Ways to Keep Others from Squeezing the Life Out of You

Picasso was known to be the kind of person who literally sucked the energy out of everyone who spent time with him. Austin Kleon shares this story in his book Show Your Work!(see thebook review). Kleon says:

“Picasso’s granddaughter Marina claimed that he [Picasso] squeezed people like one of his tubes of oil paint.”

In what some might call the pre-Facebook version of “unfriending,” Romanian Sculptor Constantin Brancusisaid he would no longer be around Picasso. After a day in Picasso’s presence...