How to Fake an Apologies

Will smith's apology genuine? I think that it's a really hard question to answer. The very first thing he said in the aftermath, when he accepted the award was not at all apologetic. It was only afterwards. That's actually like a kind of writ large version of a problem that you have with all apologies. Its especially acute when you're the parent of multiple children and one child has done something bad and you've demanded that he apologize to the other child. My colleague, bill miller, has a parenting view about this. You have to declare the second apology good enough. Because if you keep going until you get the thing that's sincere, you're neve going