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Underrated ways to change the world - by Adam Mastroianni

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How to get a good heart unstuck

photo cred: my dad A lot of people would like to make the world better, but they don’t know how. This is a great tragedy. It’s tragic not only for the people who need help, but also for the people who can help, because good intentions start to rot if you don’t act them out. Well-meaning people who remain idle end up sick in the heart and the head, and they often develop exquisite ideologies to excuse their inaction—they start to believe that witnessing problems is as good as solving them, or that it’s impossible to make things better and therefore foolish to try, or that every sorrow in…

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