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Honour, like insult, comes from others. It is their recognition of our worth. It is the intrusion of the social into the psychological, the public into the private. After all, others honour us for what they find of worth in us. __o pursue [honour],_ wrote Baruch Spinoza in Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect (1677), __e must direct our lives according to other men__ powers of understanding, fleeing what they commonly flee and seeking what they commonly seek._ So what we come to think of as worthwhile in ourselves is bound to have as a large component what others think to be worthwhile in us.

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When you begin to care too much about what everyone else says, your confidence shrinks and you start to feel like insignificant, little Jack in a strange land of intimidating giants. But when you come to realize that opinions are as diverse and plentiful as dried beans, you might reach the conclusion that your own is of the greatest worth. That's when your confidence grows, and soon you find yourself striding like Gandalf the wondrous wizard among common hobbits in the shire. Respecting your own opinion is the magic that transforms both you and your world.