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Life Is Choices. Make Them.An email here, a post there. Late to a Zoom meeting with a crying child in the background. . . we think we have been given permission to let the small stuff go. We have not.In Never Say Whatever, LinkedIn Influencer Richard A. Moran delivers an important message: “You should care. You need to care.” Moran wants you to make choices, no matter how small, in order to move ahead in your career and lead a satisfying life. He cuts to the chase of the wishy-washy mindset that holds careers back and provides the tools you need to reframe seemingly nonessential moments into prime opportunities for moving ahead. Chapters include: Making the Choice—Being Intentional The Road to Awareness—Gaining Perspective The Work Whatevers—Accountability As A Cure Leaders, Managers, and Everyone Else—The Road to Success Is Paved with Risk The Entrepreneurs Guide—Choices, Actions and Reactions Being Human—Whatever in A Worried World Whatever Can Turn Into Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda—Regrets, I’ve Had a Few Living Without Whatever: Kicking the Habit Saying “whatever” is a choice with negative consequences on one’s career.Never Say Whatever explains why this word is no good and provides the tools you need to erase it from your vocabulary—so you can start building a serious career today.

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Since Socrates, and through Descartes to the present day, the problems of self-knowledge have been central to philosophy's understanding of itself. Today the idea of "first-person authority"--the claim of a distinctive relation each person has toward his or her own mental life--has been challenged from a number of directions, to the point where many doubt the person bears any distinctive relation to his or her own mental life, let alone a privileged one. In Authority and Estrangement, Richard Moran argues for a reconception of the first-person and its claims. Indeed, he writes, a more thorough repudiation of the idea of privileged inner observation leads to a deeper appreciation of the systematic differences between self-knowledge and the knowledge of others, differences that are both irreducible and constitutive of the very concept and life of the person. Masterfully blending philosophy of mind and moral psychology, Moran develops a view of self-knowledge that concentrates on the self as agent rather than spectator. He argues that while each person does speak for his own thought and feeling with a distinctive authority, that very authority is tied just as much to the disprivileging of the first-person, to its specific possibilities of alienation. Drawing on certain themes from Wittgenstein, Sartre, and others, the book explores the extent to which what we say about ourselves is a matter of discovery or of creation, the difficulties and limitations in being "objective" toward ourselves, and the conflicting demands of realism about oneself and responsibility for oneself. What emerges is a strikingly original and psychologically nuanced exploration of the contrasting ideals of relations to oneself and relations to others.

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