Man, We Manipulate

There are some things in life you can't control. You can't control the weather, for example. The other thing you can't control is other people.

But, we really want to.

We really want to control others so we try to manipulate them through emotion. If that doesn't work, we try to do it through policy. But we really want to control them.

Why? It's because we want something from them. We want to get their money or their prestige or their time.

When our focus on others is what we want to get from them then we become manipulators. What might happen if we focused on what we could give others without thought of what we get in return?

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