<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The rules of the road exist so that other drivers... > The rules of the road exist so that other drivers can predict you, and every habit we repeatedly break in front of other people makes us harder to predict and harder to trust. When someone else has to tell you that you swung into the wrong lane again, the lane was never the real problem; the real problem is the missing internal monitor that should have caught the error first. Conscientious self-observation, the habit of watching your own conduct as it happens, is that monitor, and repairing it improves a hundred small habits at once instead of fighting each one separately. **Source:** [[livestreams/Accountability, Self-Confrontation, and Conscious Change - Workbook|Accountability, Self-Confrontation, and Conscious Change]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The rules of the road exist so that other drivers can predict you, and every habit we repeatedly break in front of other people makes us harder to predict and harder to trust. When someone else has to tell you that you swung into the wrong lane again, the lane was never the real problem; the real problem is the missing internal monitor that should have caught the error first. Conscientious self-observation, the habit of watching your own conduct as it happens, is that monitor, and repairing it improves a hundred small habits at once instead of fighting each one separately.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-rules-road-exist-instead-fighting-separately ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->