You Are How You Act
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You are the sum of your behaviors not your intentions
The modern American self is best defined by two Enlightenment thinkers who never met but have been arguing in our heads ever since. Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed in the primacy of the inner self: a core of goodness constantly betrayed by circumstance. In his view, the world corrupts us. We begin pure and only fail because society, obligation, or expectation pulls us away from who we truly are. Benjamin Franklin saw it differently. For him there was no such thing as a good person or a bad person, only people who do good things and people who do bad things. Virtue was a habit, not an…
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