VIR-III-0019
“Someone gave me too much change and I gave it back.”
No one saw. There was no penalty for keeping it. And you gave it back. That small act is a direct window into who you are when there are no stakes, and who you are when there are no stakes is who you actually are. This is character, not performance.
Your Practice
This is your standard. Now look at your day ahead, is there a situation, a conversation, a task where the easy version and the right version aren't the same? Name it right now. Then do the right version, the same way you did here. That's not a one-time act. That's who you are.
The Architects
“It took 18 months for my colleague Robert Cailliau and me to persuade the CERN directors not to charge royalties for use of the Web. Had we failed, the Web would not be here today.”
Tim Berners-Lee, Speech announcing the World Wide Web Foundation, Knight Foundation event, Newseum, Washington DC, 14 September 2008