RULE TO BREAK
“Appearances matter”
Every morning when I get out of bed I look in the mirror. I think, ‘I’m looking more awake than yesterday’, or ‘I’m sure the rings under my eyes have got darker’, or occasionally, ‘Yes – you don’t look too bad today’. Funnily, though, I don’t think these things when I look at other people. I just don’t notice (unless it’s quite extreme) how they compare with the last time I saw them. They just look like themselves.
And the reverse is true – they’re quite oblivious to the rings under my eyes or even, sadly, the times when I really don’t look too bad. That’s because, as we established in Rule 41, it’s not all about you. Nobody else cares or notices.
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking that’s all very ...
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