Your reputation is just data people collected. If you don’t like the data, change the inputs.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Reputation is an average of things people have actually seen, which means it lags behind who you are now and is not fixed. Arguing with the average rarely moves it. New entries do, slowly, because each one gets added to the same pile. That is also why one dramatic gesture changes less than twenty ordinary weeks.

Decide which single word you want people to reach for about you, then look at what you did last week through that lens. Change the inputs that contradict it, starting with the small repeated ones. Give it a term before you check whether the average moved.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

If you dislike your reputation, what input would you change?

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