Nice or mean, which is better for your personal and professional development?

NEITHER! It is BEST to be professional and smart. Being professional and smart will get one further in his/her corporate environment.

Profession means being cordial when need be and assertive when it is required. Professionalism is effectively establishing and selling your brand to co-workers, supervisors, and higher level superiors. It is knowing when and how to set reasonable limits in the workplace.

It is treating others with respect and demanding it for yourself from others. It is not being the martyr and allowing others to treat you as a second class citizen or otherwise, a persona non grata.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.