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Narrative Markets as the Foundation of Personal Brands

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💡sgsfs Trust operates as the fundamental currency that precedes and enables all subsequent economic and social exchange, functioning as a pre-monetary medium through which ideas acquire subjective value and spread through human networks. This analysis synthesizes convergent evidence from Austrian economics, trust theory, cognitive psychology, memetic theory, game theory, and

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💡sfsfsdf Personal branding emerges from academic research not as a modern commercial construct, but as the conscious expression of fundamental human drives that have shaped our species' survival and flourishing for millennia. Convergent evidence from philosophy, psychology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience demonstrates that identity expression, reputation management, and purpose-driven