Passion for something. It′s such a turnoff when you are talking to somebody and they aren’t interested in anything.

Current events? Meh. Books? Meh. Films/Shows? Meh.

I don’t care if it’s stamp collecting or chewing gum flavors or the history of wallpaper design, just be passionate or interested in something. At least we can converse for while on that topic.

Authorship of open-source GPU drivers.

Intelligence

Curiosity for things

Sense of humor

To borrow the new age term, an old soul.

There are just people who possess a sort of cynically detached understanding of the world and people. They aren’t fired by largely pointless passion or desire, they’re intelligent and perceptive enough to generally understand things and emotionally mature enough to generally accept them and they have a way of just sort of gliding through life, maintaining a relatively even keel instead of getting distracted and disconcerted by irrelevancies.

Every single person I’ve ever known who was like that has been or is special to me.

Can make smart and educated jokes. Will laugh at fart jokes.

Kindness

Def curisity and a desire to learn/improve in basically any way.

General open-mindedness/respect/mindfullness.

Having an interest in sharing something with you without making you feel stupid about it.

Went to about art museum with a guy, and he was super excited to tell me about certain pieces and artists and their history. He was very kind when I asked questions about things that were probably very obvious to a more studious person.

Was on his arm by the end of the date. Absolutely smitten!

Emotional Maturity + sincerity + charisma is a winning combo

Consent 😎