"I tried so hard", I protest, as tears stream down my face, " But why does it always happen to me?"
Self pity bouts that have the most destructive effects. Not only do they help you shrug off any semblance of a will to work hard, but also allows you to put the blame all on something beyond your control...... FATE"
We love to assign blame don't we! As a species even if it is blatantly evident that we have wronged, we still manage to assign it on someone or some event totally out of our control.
A boss talking to his team members was saying "We put in a lot of extra effort this time...". Member A cutting him short " Yes Yes that was me"... Boss " I just wanted to say it was a total waste of time and effort".. Member A... " Oh! Yeah exactly.. thats what I meant.. i didn't do it."
Praise: 'of course it was me'
Criticism: 'it couldn't have been me sir'
As the example illustrates, with success it's absolutely the opposite. A friend of mine came up one day. He had just won a competition of note, however his gait seemed to be dejected. I asked him why, and he said.. " Arre wo burbakh mota hai na, he's telling everyone that I won, not because I had talent but because he put in 2 words of advice in my ear. And strangely everyone believes him"
Call that credit-hogging.. Definitely a race of good for nothings....
For example say a man supports a political party that wins an election. In the aftermath he would behave a the prime minister himself. In an electorate as huge as ours, he would act as if his vote were the only one that counted.
On the other hand in the aftermath of defeat, we are the first to lay blame on the upper echelons of the party and the lack of their work at grassroot level. saying that what can a lone man do.
What I mean is that if aside from doing all these things we actually work on the process we can become a better race.
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