One and God make a majority.

— Frederick Douglass

RESILIENCE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Being outnumbered is not the same as being wrong. Counting heads is how groups decide, but it is not how truth gets settled, and a person standing alone with something real behind them is not in a weak position simply because no one has joined yet. Whether you call that backing conscience, or reality, or something larger, the effect is the same: the count stops being the thing that decides you.

If you hold a view that nobody around you shares, separate two questions. Is this unpopular, or is it mistaken? Only the second one should change your mind.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Where would you stand alone if nobody joined you?

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