Other's Perception of Your Behavior
The other application of this rule is that most the time you feel something, nobody else knows about it. So don't get angry when people aren't responding to you. If you deceive your thoughts with your actions, don't get angry when you fool people.
To say everyone is completely selfish is a gross exaggeration. That ignores all the acts of kindness, sacrifice and love that make the world work. But I would argue that most (not all, but most) behavior does work from the principles of selfish altruism.
Selfish altruism is basically win/win. It is where helping you directly or indirectly helps me. There are a couple main categories where this applies:
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