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Don't Be Yourself
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Don't Be Yourself

by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
October 2025
Beginner
256 pages
6h 1m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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3 Trap 2 Be True to Your Values and Follow Your Heart No Matter What

We may have innate “yuck” reactions that helped our ancestors survive, at a time when they were social mammals but not yet human. Those reactions will not always be a reliable guide to right and wrong in the much larger and more complex global community in which we live today. For that, we need to use our ability to reason.

—Peter Singer, Ethics in the Real World

Humans naturally gravitate toward their own values—core principles that shape how we view the world and determine what we consider right or wrong. These values act as a lens through which we interpret and evaluate our own experiences and those of others, a sort of inner moral compass through which we interpret ...

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