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Have you ever known someone to be influenced by their job? In other words, jobs that require compassion create compassionate people, and jobs that require cutthroat ferocity create cutthroat, ferocious people. Essentially, people are influenced by the “nature” of the work they do.
Principles and pragmatism, then, are often at odds…
… but it doesn’t have to be that way.
Even if you’re a stressed ER doctor, a razor-sharp lawyer, an overly-clever politician, or a laborer in the hot sun, you can live the “good life”. Your employment circumstances do NOT need to define the kind of person you are.
In fact, if one can manage to keep their Integrity in the midst of less-than-integral situations and less-than-virtuous attitudes, one can then take control of who they are and how they live…
… in other words, they’ll be a virtuous person living virtuously.
(See y’all tomorrow)
Principles and pragmatism, then, are often at odds…
… but it doesn’t have to be that way.
Even if you’re a stressed ER doctor, a razor-sharp lawyer, an overly-clever politician, or a laborer in the hot sun, you can live the “good life”. Your employment circumstances do NOT need to define the kind of person you are.
In fact, if one can manage to keep their Integrity in the midst of less-than-integral situations and less-than-virtuous attitudes, one can then take control of who they are and how they live…
… in other words, they’ll be a virtuous person living virtuously.
(See y’all tomorrow)
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