Worried about your reputation? Fearful that others will judge you for making a mistake? Here's a brief exercise to help get over it.
Quick, without looking it up, who was King Leopold II of Belgium and why was he significant?
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He established and ruled over the Congo Free State. During his reign, an estimated 10 million Congolese died from forced labor on his rubber plantations.
A man responsible for 60% more deaths than the Holocaust, and yet, little more than a century after his death, almost no one knows his name.
You think anyone is going to remember whatever dinky bullshit you got going on?
Quick, without looking it up, who was King Leopold II of Belgium and why was he significant?
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He established and ruled over the Congo Free State. During his reign, an estimated 10 million Congolese died from forced labor on his rubber plantations.
A man responsible for 60% more deaths than the Holocaust, and yet, little more than a century after his death, almost no one knows his name.
You think anyone is going to remember whatever dinky bullshit you got going on?