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What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid?
How to live a fearless life and remake your workplace or life
Nearly all of the bad things in the world arise from a sense of fear. Fear shuts down conversations, closes off friendships, fuels bullying and drives almost 100% of U.S. business, work, society, education, and yes — foreign policy (as heinous as it is). The policy of leadership in any of these environments is “terrorize first lest ye be terrorized.” Elites pride themselves on learning and executing various time-honored (harassment, bullying, silencing, isolating) and emerging (algorithms, invitation-only platforms, limited access) ways to shut others out, put them down, and dominate them.
Thing is: it’s not about “them”. It’s about you.
Do you really care if you got invited to Clubhouse or its successors/competitors? I know people who are honored by such invites. They’re excited to sit around listening to some self-obsessed semi-celebrity drone on and on in a “private room.” From what I’ve heard, some “reporters” are spending their time lurking in such rooms to catch notables in verbal abuse/slipups.
Yes — it’s true that many people with a publically progressive persona are in reality, horrible people behind the scenes who say and do hateful things continuously. Some of them are entrepreneurs…
