Did what I want happen? No.

Then my aim or my methods were wrong. I still have something to learn. That is the voice of authenticity.

Did what I want happen? No.

Then the world is unfair. People are jealous and too stupid to understand. It is the fault of something or someone else. That is the voice of inauthenticity.

It is not too far from there to: “They must be stopped” or “They must be hurt” or “They must be destroyed”.

Jordan Peterson, “12 Rules for Life”

Everything at Vayner Media is my fault.

There’s a thousand things wrong right now. There’s 8 to 80 people that are responsible for that but, at the end of the day, I hired and empowered those 8 to 80.

If the snacks in the kitchen stink, if we lost a client, if the micro-production team is not working well…in the end, every single thing in the company is my fault because I have the power to hire and fire every human that is actually creating that truth.

Please look yourself in the mirror and realize you’re the one that has the ability to make the change.

Gary Vaynerchuk (link goes to a video)

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “The Gulag Archipelago”