The Rules to Break, 2nd Edition

RULE TO BREAK

“What you do is more important than why you do it”

You can fool most of the people most of the time. In fact you can fool some of the people all of the time. But there’s one person you should never fool, and that’s yourself. It may sound obvious, but it’s harder than you think.

Sometimes we pretend to do things for one reason, when our real motive is different. It could be that we’re ashamed or embarrassed by our real aim. Perhaps we make out we want to score goals so the team can win, but secretly we just want to score more than a particular rival within our own team. That doesn’t sound so good, does it? So we stick to the ‘all for the team’s benefit’ story.

Or maybe we decide to stay in our job because we enjoy the social circle ...