I work extremely hard. My manager is the one who consistently fails to notice.
I ride pretty well, and I blame the roads for my bike’s poor condition.
This neighborhood is so dusty that I can’t keep my house clean and tidy.
I rarely have time to read literature because of my office work.
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We are obviously very good at finding faults in others. But how valuable are we when we analyze ourselves? How much do we at least admit to ourselves that we make mistakes or have made one?
When we are solely to blame, we resort to lame excuses to defend ourselves.
Because we are the heroes in our stories, it is difficult to put ourselves in the shoes of the perpetrator.
The hero rarely makes mistakes; instead, he corrects the world and leads it in the right direction.
Only when we admit we have made a mistake in committing to something can we make a mistake a part of our past.
~ Greg McKeown