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The price of keeping secrets
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
What Is Secrecy?
i just want to ask you, what is a secret? Ecause this does feel like everyone knows what a secret is. It seems so obvious that it almost els doesn't even demand a definition. That's exactly right. And so the definition turns out to be really important here. I define secrecy as an intention, the intention to withhold information from one or more people. Some secrets you never have to hold back in conversation. They never come up in conversation. No one ever asks you about it. But that doesn't mean it's not a secret. So a secret is this intention to hold back information. And your mind can return to this intention time and time again. And that
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