Excuses: Winners don't need any, losers always have one. If you've never cooked one up, you're full of shit. They're a nasty phenomenon you can and can't live without.What?
Excuses don't need introductions. A 2-year old would know how to conjure one up.
Like all things, an excuse too has a life time: they bud, grow, mature, get old, die & are eventually forgotten - but they are never justified.
An excuse presents itself in the most camouflaged forms. The disguise works so well that we often "realize" an excuse only in retrospect.
How?
- you've got an achievement to make
- you screw up
- you're discovered
- shit hits the fan
- out pops an excuse!
Atleast that's the overview.
Why?
Because they make you feel good about your screw ups. It's a way (the wrong one) of protecting yourself from an aftermath of a failure. Excuses are a convenient way of giving up your duty to perform.
100% elimination is impossible.
Keep them at bay, minimum doses - like a diabetes patients taking a naughty nibble off a Mars bar - don't gulp it all down - as much as that may taste good, it's bound to kill.
Let the struggle continue!
1 comment:
good take on something that is downplaying our achievements.
" Blame it on the train, when the bus is already there' !
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