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Finance and money depend on belief in value; once confidence in the dollar is lost, people stop wanting to use it.
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Confidence
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Canto 9. The color cowardice displayed in me when I saw that my guide was driven back made him more quickly mask his own..."
Key Notes
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The quoted canto portrays Virgil as temporarily shaken and needing aid from a higher authority despite his past excursions through hell.
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When challenged by a student, Jiang says he is open to hearing commentators' views if they are presented concretely, but he remains confident that his own interpretation carries more weight.
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Jiang says strength and confidence redirect energy toward self-improvement rather than fixation on other people's wrongs.
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Jiang says confidence and happiness make the brain more open to new ideas, while stress triggers fight-or-flight shutdown.
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"Canto 9. The color cowardice displayed in me when I saw that my guide was driven back made him more quickly mask his own..."
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"So he's very disappointed he was not able to convince the demons. Okay, keep on going."
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"He stood alert like an attentive listener because his eyes could hardly journey far across the black air and the heavy fog. We have..."
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"honest here i think the only thing that dante scholars can agree on is that they they have the best definition and best understanding..."
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"or something okay well then i'd be very happy for you to read everything they write and then tell us what they write and..."
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"um yeah that's that's a great analogy I completely agree yeah because if you're really strong and confident you just focus on improving yourself..."
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"...Because a lot of finance, a lot of money, it's just confidence, okay? You have the U.S. dollar because you're confident that it's valuable...."
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"So what makes us human special is our resilience, our ability to grow, to adapt. But the problem is that when Chinese go to..."
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Shanghai can win PISA and still not prove that its schools are forming whole people.
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