For sure - and a great many celebrated entrepreneurs, startup founders, and fortune 500 C*Os…
I suspect many of us are somewhere on that spectrum between Scott F Fitzgerald's "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.", and George Orwell's Doublethink: "The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them..."
(For me, I feel most deeply my own hypocrisy about traffic laws - while on my motorcycle on empty backroads, "those speeding laws don't apply to me!" while taxi drivers failing to indicate and running red lights around town deserve the full force of _those_ laws, of course… I sometimes suspect I'd be a lot wealthier if I channeled that personal hypocrisy along a more Zuckerbergian or AirBNB-like YCombinator-approved "ask for forgiveness later" attitude towards other company's terms of service – instead of just feeding my own adrenaline addiction…)
I suspect many of us are somewhere on that spectrum between Scott F Fitzgerald's "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.", and George Orwell's Doublethink: "The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them..."
(For me, I feel most deeply my own hypocrisy about traffic laws - while on my motorcycle on empty backroads, "those speeding laws don't apply to me!" while taxi drivers failing to indicate and running red lights around town deserve the full force of _those_ laws, of course… I sometimes suspect I'd be a lot wealthier if I channeled that personal hypocrisy along a more Zuckerbergian or AirBNB-like YCombinator-approved "ask for forgiveness later" attitude towards other company's terms of service – instead of just feeding my own adrenaline addiction…)