Speaking Up Matters More Than You Think

Courage is often contagious

The room was small. A machine sat on the table with a dial that went up to 450 volts of electricity, past a label that read “Danger: Severe Shock.” One by one, ordinary people were asked to sit at the machine and deliver what they believed were painful shocks to a stranger in the next room (in fact, no one was being shocked). Most of them did it.

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