It can seem easier to keep everyone happy by agreeing with the majority. We earn praise, or at least avoid trouble, when we’re on board with popular opinion. On the flip side, actually disagreeing, even politely, can draw all kinds of pressure to change our minds....
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A Hero in the Unlikeliest of Habitats: One Man Saving the World Through Love
He’s just a simple guy... a schoolteacher. A humble, bespectacled man in a humble profession in a humble city somewhere in middle America. On the other hand, you might call him broken. A broken man, with a broken kid and broken dreams of fatherhood... In a broken...