The Virtue of Selfishness — Why You Must Put Yourself First

Описание: Put yourself first without guilt. This video breaks down the virtue of selfishness as self-defense: how to set boundaries, stop people-pleasing, protect your time and attention, and become harder to manipulate with guilt, pressure, or emotional control. Learn 8 practical rules to build calm confidence, reclaim your energy, and create leverage in relationships, work, and life.

📚 Chapters:
00:00 Intro
03:55 CHAPTER 1: Stop advertising your pain.
05:54 CHAPTER 2: The world pays for boundaries, not sacrifices.
08:28 CHAPTER 3: Choose your priorities before people choose them for you.
11:04 CHAPTER 4: Kindness without standards is just consent.
13:35 CHAPTER 5: Stop negotiating with guilt.
16:09 CHAPTER 6: Help people in a way that keeps you powerful.
18:31 CHAPTER 7: Build a life that doesn’t require permission.
21:05 CHAPTER 8: Become your own first loyalty.
27:04 Outro

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📚 Books Mentioned/Recommended:
Niccolò Machiavelli — The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli — Discourses on Livy
Sun Tzu — The Art of War
Baltasar Gracián — The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Robert Greene — The 48 Laws of Power
Clausewitz — On War
Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War