Individual decisions affect and implicate collectives—families, organizations, communities—whose interests properly factor into decision-making. You are not an isolated individual optimizing personal preference but a person embedded in relationships whose decisions affect others and reflect on your collectives. Career decisions affect family status and resources. Work decisions reflect on your organization.
This collective dimension creates both constraint and resource. It constrains because purely individual preference is not sufficient decision basis—you must consider others. It provides resource because decisions made with collective support have collective backing. Accept that others have legitimate interest in decisions that affect them; their input represents stake, not intrusion.
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