Aditya Kothadiya's Blog

Blame Token

Once in a while, we land up in a situation when something doesn’t go right as expected. Usually, in such situations the most common behavior which we see is we tend to blame someone else for what went wrong. I think that’s the biggest mistake we generally do.

What’s wrong in blaming someone?

1. It’s ethically wrong:

As we already know, it doesn’t make sense morally. We are putting someone else in a weird situation for which that person was not even responsible.

2. We don’t learn:

We are loosing the great opportunity to learn. I think this is a terrible mistake. When we blame someone, we are also turning down our responsibilities. We are not even attempting to understand what went wrong, what were its causes, and how it can be corrected. I think the only way we can make progress is learning from our mistakes.

3. We undervalue our importance:

We are giving the importance to other person in such situations. When we blame someone else, we are indirectly indicating that if the required thing would have worked good as expected, that person would have been responsible for it, as he is also responsible for its failure.

In short, when something goes wrong, don’t blame someone else, instead learn from it.