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By identifying what you are doing to perpetuate a situation, you learn where you have leverage to affect the system. Simply by changing your own behavior, you gain at least some influence over the problem.
Difficult Conversations
Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
Fukuyama, with only one socioeconomic system possible, offers a straightforward, and tautological, functionalism: differentials of power, status and reward are those ‘necessary’ for the system, and trust is the mechanism by which such unequal individuals unite around the shared objective of economic progress. For Fox, such inequalities militate against trust. This contrast foreshadows something of the contemporary debates about whether social capital is an essentially conservative notion built around an assumption of consensus and social unity (Schuller, Baron, Field 2000: 18).
Anti-Capital
Professor Tittenbrun, Jacek
The most painful moments are not those we spend with uninteresting people; rather, they are those spent with uninteresting people trying hard to be interesting.
The Bed of Procrustes
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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