Stop Blaming Others - How To Take Responsibility For Your Actions

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topic: 🧠 Psychology
links:

• How to be less certain
• Uncertainty is better than certainty
• Responsibility of choice
• Don't Blame, Take Responsibility - Responsiblity-fault fallacy
• I am wrong much more often than I am right - and why this is a good thing

source: The subtle art of not giving a fuck
tags: #permanent-note #published

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If it comes down to the question if you screwed up, or someone else did, it is most of the time you.

Always remember: if it comes down to the question if you screwed up, or someone else did, it is most of the time you.

Try to find the mistakes in your doing, not the one of others. You can't change them anyway. You might complain, but if they change is still up to them.

Instead, focus on the question of how you can improve. What was your mistake in this?

It's not you against the world. Very often, it is you against yourself.

Blaming others is a common excuse to avoid admitting your own mistakes. But ultimately, it is yourself who you can change. So if something went wrong, how can you improve it?