Have you ever seen a school of barracudas attack an object on the surface of the water? It’s an incredible sight. They see something shiny and they simply react—just like all the barracudas around them. Barracudas don’t have values; they just lunge toward the next shiny object. And we humans tend to do the same. We follow trends, go into debt, apply for jobs we hate just so we can afford the new car that will take us to that same job. We lie, cheat, and steal. We build a life on a foundation of compromises. But if we’re willing to compromise anything, eventually we’ll compromise everything.
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