A diagnostic for people who feel punished for their empathy: in systems optimized against you, you can lose, become like the system, or study it deeply enough to redesign it. The first path is defeat. The second is capture. Only the third preserves the original self — and only the third requires reading books like these. Most 'power' books are secretly written for this audience; everyone else is just decorating.
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