Let’s now move back to our discussion of the Solution-Building Guidelines and look at number 4, which is based on the basic concept of commitment as well as courtesy:
Guideline Number 4: Act as though the person whose respect is most important to you is watching how you behave.
In the last post, I discussed the various aspects of personality that interact in many ways to dictate how our personality manifests itself. Those aspects were ego, id, superego, and alter ego. The fact is, we rarely talk about anything but ego, and unless we are trained in psychology we are ill-equipped to see that what we call “ego” is actually that manifestation of the four-component interaction.