Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this video, we're going to talk about how to beware

of false profits. Elegance at its greatest pitch.

Elegance at its greatest pitch leaves little room for reason. This is one of my favorite quotes from David Hume and one of my favorite quotes of all time.

And especially when I was growing up and I was going through high school and

through college, I really adopted this quote and I really fell in love with this

quote because I felt like there was something so true to this. There's so much

bullshit, so much nonsense, so much

disinformation that comes when people get sucked in to the cult of personality.

And that's what I want to talk about in this video,

because this is a very dangerous thing that leads many people astray

in their personal development.

Dooms them for life.

Makes them lost for life. makes them believe stupid ideas, makes them buy into

dogmas, makes them angry, bitter, resentful, defensive, egotistical, violent, and many, many more negative qualities like this

which we want to avoid with personal development.

Actually, the quote goes on, Hume's quote goes on,

and it goes like this.

It says, eloquence at its greatest pitch leaves

little room for a reason or reflection, but addresses entirely

to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers and subduing their understanding, which is exactly the danger of it.

When something sounds really nice, when something sounds very flowery, when someone's

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