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These things are moral imperatives.
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So if you're not exerting self-determination,
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you're not working hard, and you're not succeeding,
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there's something wrong with you
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because you have failed the moral test of the Protestant work ethic.
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Then the 'pull yourself up by the boot straps'
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is the colloquialism that gets used to do this.
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Now another part of our thinking has to do with, as I said,
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what the psychologists have studied called the just world bias.
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There's this--the just world bias and there's something related to it
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called the fundamental attribution error,
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that has to do with the way we think about things