Your reputation is just every small choice people saw, stacked up.

RESILIENCE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Nobody forms an opinion of you from a summary. They assemble it from fragments: whether you showed up when you said you would, how you talked about the person who was not in the room, what you did when the task was boring. None of those moments feels decisive. All of them get stored.

Think about the handful of people whose opinion of you would matter in two years, and ask what they have actually seen lately. Fix the easiest gap this week, like replying when you said you would. You cannot manage a reputation directly, only the small things it is made of.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which of your small choices have the most witnesses?

MORE IN CHOICE & CONSEQUENCE

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