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The World’s Most Important Rule
It’s Simple to Follow; Not Easy
How we treat ourselves reflects how we treat others. It’s a universal law called Karma, which means “As in so doing.” If you think ghosting your interviewer, boss, friend, or anyone else is okay, don’t be surprised if you get ghosted often.
If you walk or drive with a scowl, now you know why people scowl you down. If you’re a bitter, angry bitch of a human, you’ll attract the same. See the pattern?
If you want to feel better about the world around you, look in the mirror and vow: “If there is only one rule I can follow today, let it be the Golden Rule.”
My aim with this article is to help more of us remember to live by the most important rule for all of us, regardless of our faith, including that of none: The Golden Rule.
A Brief History of Ethics
Go back far enough in time and study the ancient Greek philosophers, and you’ll see The Golden Mean. The teaching was central to Aristotle’s virtue ethics. The Golden Mean is where virtue becomes the balancing beam between good and evil extremes.
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics categorizes moral and intellectual virtues:
- Moral virtues are acquired by habit and practice. They lie at the mean between two…
