Your private choices are training sessions for public pressure.

Nobody watches the private choices, which is exactly what makes them useful as training. How you treat an inconvenient truth when there is no audience is how you will treat one when there is, because pressure does not create character. It just removes the effort available for pretending.

Pay attention to what you do when it would cost nothing to do otherwise. Those moments are shaping the responses you will have access to on a much harder day.