A mask wearing lesson from a recovering people-pleaser

How many people out there are donning a face mask, not because they think it’ll actually save someone’s life, but merely to people please? But people pleasing comes at a great cost to our personal integrity, as Jerry DeWitt describes in the following 7-minute video:

DeWitt’s speaks about his life from age 17-40:

“And I tried to please everyone. Little did I know that trying to please everyone was going to draw so much out of me… sometimes demanding my own personal integrity.”

At age 40, however, he gave up being a people pleaser.

“My heroes begin to change, my father figures begin to change, my role models begin to change. And what I begin to be drawn towards then, was no longer the larger than life performers that stand on the stage, but instead I begin to be drawn towards people that showed lives of true integrity; not necessarily based on public favour, but instead based on proveable facts.”

For some proveable facts that masks don’t work check out these seven studies.

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John C. A. Manley About the Author: John C. A. Manley is the author of the full-length novel, Much Ado About Corona: Dystopian Love Story. He is currently working on the sequel, Brave New Normal, while living in Stratford Ontario, with his wife Nicole and son Jonah. You can subscribe to his email newsletter, read his amusing bio or check out his novel.


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