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Plato Uncovered: Building Influence in the Ancient and Modern World

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The Importance of Knowing Who You Like and Trust

In Plato's world, no one knows what the true ideas are. What people do know is who they like and who they trust to be their friends. The primacy that Plato put on in person networks was probably because he sensed that no one knows really what's going on. And there's it's a thousand little islands of sense making and creativity in archipelago not unlike the Greek city states.

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