Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 7/16/12
July 16, 2012—Issue #147
This week’s focus point: When we lie to ourselves long enough, we begin to believe it. That’s how the third-string quarterback threw the touchdown pass in a key game; how the understudy “starred” in the ballet; why untrue résumé claims sit like ticking time bombs after the individual has since gained success and doesn’t need the lie any longer. The highest ranking admiral in the U.S. committed suicide in 1996 when it was discovered he was wearing a tiny “V” (for valor) insignia on a tiny medal that wasn’t appropriate. (He had come up “through the ranks,” not via the United States Naval Academy.) What do we continue to believe that was never true and we no longer need for our ego or career? What are we inexplicably relaying to others that may one day explode in our faces? You don’t need old lies, you simply need to rely on your current talent. Besides, the truth is easier. You don’t have to remember as much.
Monday Morning Perspective: Regret for the things we did can be tempered over time; it is regret for things we did not do that is inconsolable. — Sydney J. Harris
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