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Britney Spears, Rock Star   “Sometimes it’s our secrets that define us.”   Secrets are usually things you don’t want others to know about. Hiding the  truth changes everything. Most of the time it is not even something that is  so horrible that others would shun us or want us dead.    It is surprising to learn that many times the things we worry about most  don’t really concern others very much. It changes our behavior because of our  level of worry, but in the big scheme of things it is actually kind of small. But there are other types of secrets that can influence your behavior.  Consider this quote:   “A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.”   Paul Valery   There are little subconscious influencers we all live by that we don’t think  of as secret, but we still use them to make decisions. Interestingly enough,  these things are many times known about us by the rest of the world. If we  shouted it from the mountaintops, they would be no more public and obvious  than they are