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Defiance Among Diplomats: Part 3 - When Silence Looks Like Agreement (opens the original)
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This is the third of a three part series. Read Part 1: Whose Values Win? and Part 2: How to Defy a Power Greater Than Yours.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.c
Defiance Among Diplomats: Part 2 - How to Defy a Power Greater Than Yours (opens the original)
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This is the second of a three-part series. You can also read Part 1: Whose Values Win?, and Part 3: When Silence Looks Like Agreement.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gphR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a04067d-075
Why You Don't Need To Be Loud To Be Defiant (opens the original)
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My new TEDx talk just went live, and has been selected as a TEDx Editor’s Pick. It’s a personal story that begins in an alleyway in West Yorkshire when I was seven years old.I open with a story about my mother. She was 4’10”, quiet and gentle. The kind of woman who apologized when someone stepped on her foot. For most of my childhood, she was the most compliant person I knew. I thought defiance was something for other people: it was loud, aggressive, bold. Certainly not her, and definitely not
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