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Mirror 64 · The World

Power

Power is not the ability to control others. It is the ability to control yourself — and in doing so, to become someone who no longer needs to control anyone else.

The chess clubs of St. Petersburg have produced some of the greatest players in the history of the game. In a basement room on the Nevsky Prospekt, a group of elderly men had been playing for decades. They were not grandmasters. They were retired engineers, teachers, and bureaucrats who had spent a ...

Reflection question

What would change in your life if you truly believed this?

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