Who Can Tell You You’re Wrong? | What's In Your Way Is The Way
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🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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The thing about power is not so much that it changes you but that it changes the people around you. It changes what they’re willing to say to you…and how they say it.
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| 2:07.6 | The thing about power is not so much that it changes you, but that it changes the people |
| 2:12.6 | around you. Suddenly they want something from you. Suddenly they are dependent on you. Suddenly they are afraid of you. And, they want something from you. Suddenly, they are dependent on you. Suddenly, they are |
| 2:19.4 | afraid of you. And this changes what they do and think. It changes what they're willing to say to you |
| 2:24.8 | and how they say it. We're told that the Emperor Hadrian once got in an argument with favorinus, |
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