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    Imagine that your level of self-confidence is zero. You feel utterly powerless. You have no control of anything. No choices you make are your own.

    How do you prove - to the world and to yourself - that you are in control, that you are powerful? You make the worst decisions possible.

    Wait, what? What does that accomplish?

    See, if you were to make a good decision, how does anyone know it was your decision? If you make a good decision, you’re just “doing what you’re supposed to.” You’re “doing what other people want you to do.” By making decisions that nobody wants you to make, you are most definitely “in control.” Those worst decisions are yours, and nobody else’s.

    Bad decisions are a demonstration of power, to the world and to themselves. And every time those bad decisions are criticized without any real consequence, that power is reinforced. The criticism is part of the power play.

    They can do anything they want, and they prove it every day by making the worst decisions.