It doesn’t take an exhaustive study to convince people that, in general, there happens to be a disparity between what most say, and what they do. If a scale of integrity were created from sociopath to Gandhi, there would no doubt be quite a range; yet most of those we deal with in our everyday lives (aside from telemarketers and government employees) are somewhere in the middle. The reasons that people do not always live up to what they say are innumerable, and it could quite possibly cause insanity to figure them all out. Thus, it’s quite trivial and a tremendous waste of time to allow the hypocrisy of others to adversely affect us. If someone is constantly falling short, flaking out, disappointing, then the problem is not with them, it is with you. Thankfully there is a clear and reliable way to decipher intent and thus alter expectations so that they dwell in reality.
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