{"id":42964,"date":"2018-09-18T04:45:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T09:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhyatt.com\/?p=42964"},"modified":"2018-09-18T04:45:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T09:45:46","slug":"george-washington-vs-workplace-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullfocus.co\/george-washington-vs-workplace-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"George Washington vs. Workplace Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

When George Washington was a teenager, he both copied out by hand<\/a> and tweaked 110 \u201crules of civility and decent behavior.\u201d These rules had been compiled by Jesuits in late 16th century France and made the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

Manners were up in the air in this new world when Washington put quill to paper. You see, manners were designed for men of high standing, determined by birth. \u201cCourt\u201d-liness literally referred to a king or nobleman\u2019s court and how one should act in that context.<\/p>\n

What was expected of most commoners was not really manners but deference. You can see this in some of the rules that Washington copied out.<\/p>\n

For instance, rule 26 began, \u201cIn pulling off your hat to persons of distinction, as noblemen, justices, churchmen, and company, make a reverence bowing more or less according to the custom of the better bred\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Manners for everyone<\/h3>\n

But you can also see a break from hard caste in the very next sentence with \u201cbut among your equals\u2026\u201d Washington would oversee the rise of a new nation in which most men were equals (with the unforgettable exception of slaves).<\/p>\n

These new people believed that the democratization of power called for not less but more widespread observance of manners. Washington sought to model these manners in his life, on the battlefield, as a farmer-businessman, and as president.<\/p>\n\t\t