Nobody wants to be judged by their worst day. Offer that deal to other people first.

You already know the standard you want applied to you: look at the whole record, not the afternoon I lost it. The trouble is that you only have the whole record for yourself. Everyone else you see in fragments, and a bad fragment is easy to mistake for a character. The fairness has to start on your side.

Think of someone you have filed away over one incident. Give them a second reading this week, not a speech, just a willingness to be wrong.