The Problems of Exercising Double Standards

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The blind spot or rationalization that leads to conducting ourselves in a way that reveals double standards is dangerous to how we’re experienced, perceived and judged. In other words, it’s not good at all for our reputation.

When people perceive or recognize double standards that negatively impact them or hurt others as what is looked at as character deficiency, they connect this behavior to past pain and their sense of ‘right and wrong’ and quickly form strong, rigid judgments, seeing you in an unfavorable light.

Changing that judgment is extremely difficult to do, thus it’s tremendously smart and helpful to notice when we might be acting in this way and stop before we proceed or quickly correct if we’ve already committed the error.

It’s important as well, critical even to remember that people resist changing their minds on highly emotional beliefs. If we haven’t yet learned that, we eventually will and when we do we won’t like it much. It will frustrate us to no end.

When our character is suddenly or eventually deemed unworthy of trust and respect, the cold, hard truth is our reputation suffers badly for it, whether we ‘feel’ it is a just reaction or not.