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How Does Accountability Overrule Blame?
Accountability empowers in so many ways. The world needs more accountability.
I used to be really good at the blame game.
It was super-easy to blame this, that, or the other thing for all the faults I saw in my life. I blamed this for getting fat and out of shape, that for costing me the job, or the other thing for my ongoing dissatisfaction.
Blame is particularly easy when it’s everywhere. Spend just a few minutes online and you’ll see someone blaming someone for something. It gets ridiculous VERY quickly when you look for the blame.
Why is blame so prevalent? I think that we have this false belief that blame removes responsibility. If you blame someone or something YOU cease to be accountable for it.
This couldn’t be further from the truth.
As a society, accountability is often frowned upon. Let’s take politics, for example. For four years, the majority of the Republican party has enabled Trump and his shenanigans. Now? Watch as they take ZERO accountability for their actions and place all the blame on Trump, his family, the Democrats, and other scapegoats I’m sure will emerge. Their culpability? No such animal.
