Overcoming being CHEATED | Simon Sinek

27 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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Short monologue by Simon Sinek reflecting on being cheated: he outlines steps to respond—identify blind spots, assess whether malice or selfishness motivated the act, consider one’s own contribution, and balance forgiveness with guarded future expectations to avoid cynicism while maintaining relationships.

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Well, I don't know how you were cheated or what was cheated. When we are cheated, there are many things. A, what were our blind spots? We have to be aware. Aware of what they are so that we can prevent those things from happening. B, was the person acting with malice or was the person acting with selfishness? You know, were they trying to hurt us or they just trying to gain for themselves?
Were we taking advantage of. Where did we contribute? Look, the world is a cruel place. I hate to. I hate to be cynical about it. And we can't go around not trusting anybody because we're afraid that someone's going to, you know, lie to us or cheat us, because then we'd never build relationships. And so there's an acceptable level of risks we have to. We have to take. But if you were cheated, you can forgive but not forget kind of thing, which is, you'd be like, I forgive you because you know, it causes me more pain to harbor anger. But I'm going to move on. And don't expect anything from me in the future. You can absolutely do that.