Everyone deserves respect, period

Colleagues,

In what is now an annual summer tradition, I share the most important things I’ve learned from other people. This summer we have 15 lessons. 
 
1. Everyone deserves respect, period
This is such a powerful belief for two reasons. First, it frees you of trying to judge people, which is a quite taxing and useless exercise that most of us engage in far too often. Respect people because they are people and don’t worry about trying to decide whether or not they deserve it – they are human beings, so the do.
 
I’ll be away from email for a while, but please feel free to respond to this series and I will get back to you after my return.
 
Do good and be well,
 
Frederick