I treat everyone the same, no matter what their station in life.

Watch a voice change when somebody learns what you do for a living. It's a small adjustment — half a step of warmth added or taken away — and it's usually made with no awareness at all.

The reliable test isn't how a person behaves toward the powerful; nearly everyone manages that. It's the second minute with a cleaner, a delivery driver, a junior nobody is watching them talk to.

Sameness doesn't mean identical treatment. It means the baseline doesn't move — the same attention, the same amount of time, the same willingness to use a name.