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You Must Avoid These Stains Too | How To Make The Right Decision (Even When It Will Cost You)

2025/6/20
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This chapter explores the various forces that hinder our ability to make the right decisions, such as power, fame, and various forms of societal pressures. It emphasizes the importance of resisting these forces to maintain our values and integrity.
  • Forces like power and fame can compromise our values.
  • Radicalization, polarization, and dehumanization are modern-day temptations.
  • Resisting these forces requires conscious effort and vigilance.

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There are forces out there, just as tempting as power, that can cut us off from our values, from truth, from other people, from what matters. It takes work to resist them, to counteract them, and to rise above them.

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