Every time you interact with someone you should give them a base level of respect. How they respond determines the amount of respect you continue to proceed with.
Every time you interact with someone you should give them a base level of respect. How they respond determines the amount of respect you continue to proceed with.
There are different types of respect, though.
Achievements garner respect, even if the person is a real asshole and terrible human being the rest of the time. Many musicians fall under this category.
Then you have genuinely good people who are respected for that, but not because they’ve achieved something extraordinary. Many ordinary people who are known in their community for being kind and generous often earn this type respect.
Then you have the rare case of someone who is both an amazing person and has achieved something that can be respected. Keanu Reeves fits here.
Another forms of respect is one where someone who has earned a title, commands a form of automatic respect from people: doctors, judges, etc.
I can go on, but you get the point.
“Respect that is earned” is often the respect you get from people ABOVE YOU, and rarely the other way around, unless you fall into one of the above categories. A teacher, for example should be respected by their students, but students don’t automatically get respect from their teacher unless they have earned it (through effort, grades, etc.).