why you should care about your reputation

the most dangerous thing you can develop and there's actually a reputation that explains why chinese general wins battle using this one strategy you see named Zhuge Liang and he's trapped inside a tiny city he's completely surrounded by enemy forces and he's outnumbered 50 to one his men are begging him to seal the gates but instead he orders civilians to get inside his soldiers to throw the gates wide open across the field the enemy General sees the open gate and thinks Liang is trying to surrender his army straight into the city as he gets closer is an empty town and Liang sitting on a wall playing with no one and immediately something is off the most cunning trickster in China and a man like that doesn't just sit down in the open unless he wants you so Sima Yi comes to the conclusion that this must be a trap and he orders to retreat but understand that battle how Liang's reputation saved him wasn't his confidence it was purely reputation spent years winning battles Sima Yi would have made a different decision that day so contrary to popular belief you should absolutely care what people think about you because people are going to think something either way and what they think about your life like whether you get hired or whether people what you're selling you should care what people think that somehow not caring what people think makes you free is so backward if you don't care people will craft one for you like what they do so the best move is to craft your own story like and follow if you agree