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1. How secure and
confident are you
about yourself?

2. You are with your important
business partner making an
important deal. You explain
how profitable this deal
would prove to both you and
your partner. Your partner’s
face glows as you finish your
talk stating how excited you
are about the deal and how it
is going to be a success.

3. Next talks the consultant
whom you and your partner
hired for the project. You
have been arguing with him
about the project for several
days. You didn’t like him. He
is very critical and hard to
agree with. You tried
everything you can to make
this deal work.

4. As he starts to explain, he
talks about how he lost trust
in your company, how
everything would be lost if
the project continues, and
why the project faces all
these problems because of
your company.

5. You can’t control yourself.
You kept fidgeting and taking
sips from the bottle in front
of you. You got very angry
because of how he was
disfiguring you in very subtle
and manipulative ways. He
twisted everything you said
and presented it as it would
mean you don’t have the
determination to pursue this
project.

6. You were speechless as it
totally ruined everything you
worked so hard for. You just
can’t understand how the guy
you talked to many times
about how interesting this
project will be stood against
it out of nowhere.

7. What most annoyed you was
that all the points he made
were targeted against you. All
that he said seemed right but
it was all wrong. You couldn’t
even defend yourself but just
watch as he ruins what you
built one by one.

8. Situations like this
happen every now and then.
Some people try to disfigure
you in very subtle and
manipulative ways that
you wouldn’t be able to stand
its consequences. The harm
it brings is actually very
severe and adverse that it
will make you suffer greatly.

9. Technology has made this
even very worse than it
seems. Fake news is
threatening different
countrys’ national security
and damaging their integrity
by worsening unrest and
causing conflicts. Especially
deep fake and other
technologies could cause an
unprecedented amount of
damage.

10. Peoples' lives are also
harmed because of this.
Office gossip, if not perfectly
addressed by strong
leadership, bigger problems
would happen to employees.
Relationships would also be
ruined by such kinds of toxic
behaviors that would make
surface envy and jealousy
instead of respect and love.

11. If people don’t live their lives
with responsibility and
strength, then manipulative
and toxic behavior would be
commonplace. People would
even go lengths to blame and
wrong each other that it
would be very hard to live
with respect and love.

12. To resolve these problems,
people need to learn to feel
secure and confident about
themselves. They shouldn’t
care about what other people
say as long as they know the
truth and aren’t afraid to tell
it. This is an important thing
to nurture in people and has
a big power to impact
individuals and the world at
large. One who seeks the
truth finds it.