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Blame and Responsibility
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A man Day can fail 7many times, 14 but he 21 isn’t a 28
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failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
— John Burroughs
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If you want to measure where you are, if you want to know whether
you’re on the + success curve or on the failure curve, or if you want to assess
anyone else and determine 5% which curve they’re on, here’s how. There is one
attitude, one state of mind, which overwhelmingly predominates either side old
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of the curve.
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The predominant state of mind displayed by
those people _ 95%
on the failure curve is blame. The
predominant state of mind displayed by those
people on the success curve is responsibility.
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Responsibility
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Blame
People on the success curve live a life of responsibility. They take full
responsibility for who they are, where they are, and everything that happens
to them.
Taking responsibility liberates you; in fact, it is perhaps the single most
liberating thing there is. Even when it hurts, even when it doesn’t seem fair.
When you don’t take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances,
fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full
responsibility—even when others are wrong or the situation is genuinely unfair—
you keep your life’s reins in your own hands.
Negative and difficult things happen to all of us; most of them are mostly or
completely out of our control. It’s how we react, how we view those circumstances