VIR-III-0039
“I could skip the safety step and no one would ever find out.”
It's tedious, it slows you down, and skipping it is invisible — until the day it isn't, on someone else's body. The corner you cut in the dark has a victim you'll never meet unless something goes wrong. Doing right here isn't about getting caught. It's about the people downstream of your shortcut who are trusting you to do the boring thing right.
Your Practice
- Do the step. The whole point is that its value shows up only when you skipped it.
- Picture the person harmed if it fails. That's who the step is for.
- Refuse the 'just this once.' Once is how every shortcut starts.
- Build the discipline so the right thing is automatic, not a daily debate.