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Those of us who have a degree of fame have experienced the lack of mutuality in these relationships quite acutely: the strangeness of encountering a person who knows you, who sees you, whom you cannot see in the same way.

We are conditioned to care about kin, to take life’s meaning from the relationships with those we know and love. But the... See more

Being known by strangers, and, even more dangerously, seeking their approval, is an existential trap. And right now, the condition of contemporary life is to shepherd entire generations into this spiritual quicksand.

Fame itself, in the older, more enduring sense of the term, is still elusive, but the possibility of a brush with it functions as a kind of pyramid scheme.

The choice we all have is between protection and endangerment. Who you dedicate your words, your time, your money and your efforts to will protect or endanger them.

But what if we get it wrong or out of context? Or what if our ideas of what’s considered morally wrong in society change?

After all morality is subjective and shifts all the time. What was considered good in Roman times, in the Middle Ages, in the 50s, in the 80s, even in the early 2000s is all completely different now. Political and religious... See more

In the podcast “thinking about thinking” Simon Sinek have the guests Brené Brown and Adam Grant over. When Adam ends up mentioning a study about bystanders and rescuers during the holocaust. Who went against the government, to become criminals, in order to save and hide people whos ideology was different from their own? Grant says the following:

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