Signs You’ve Been Living With Your Guard Up - Page 5
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Julia Austin
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People are mostly good
When it comes to withholding personal information for fear someone may use it against you, Curry says, “While that is understandable, the assumption here is that everyone around you will be intentionally malicious, which is likely not true.” By the way, it’s been proven, through research, that people mostly won’t screw you over. One study examined this very matter, and found that, in most cases, people will do something for the good of others, even if it is at a direct cost to themselves. In other words, it turns out that people are mostly good.
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