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Self Blame and Self Esteem

I recently read the results of a study done on children. They found that when things go wrong for very young boys, they are likely to blame the circumstances or the objects they are playing with. "Dumb wall hurt my head." or "Stupid toy doesn’t work right." Very young girls, on the other hand, were likely to blame themselves. "I’m so uncoordinated." or "I can’t work this toy." While we want to be aware of this as we interact with our daughters, I believe this phenomena is present in adult boys and girls also.

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There is enough pressure at work without putting additional blame on ourselves. Too often when something doesn’t go right, we think of all the ways we could have created a different outcome, and blame ourselves because we did not. Meanwhile, those around us might be blaming the circumstances and moving on to the next project. Of course we need to be accountable for the results of our actions, but too much self-blame will debilitate us.

Sometimes it doesn’t matter why things didn’t work out as planned. The only important thing is to make the best of it and move forward. It is much harder to do this if we lose confidence through inappropriate self-blame. Awareness is the first step. Small adjustments make a big difference.

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