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No Stupid Questions
This influential 1988 paper discussed how explanations (excuses vs. justifications) function in negotiating reality after a negative outcome. The authors argued that employing an excuse sequence, focusing on external factors, preserved the excuse-giver's self-esteem and sense of control, contrasting with the self-focus of the no-excuse sequence.
It's excuses, colon, their effective role in the negotiation of reality.
— Episode: 216. Why Do We Make Excuses?
Episode: 216. Why Do We Make Excuses?
This influential 1988 paper discussed how explanations (excuses vs. justifications) function in negotiating reality after a negative outcome. The authors argued that employing an excuse sequence, focusing on external factors, preserved the excuse-giver's self-esteem and sense of control, contrasting with the self-focus of the no-excuse sequence.
It's excuses, colon, their effective role in the negotiation of reality.
If you are in the no excuse sequence, what you do is you internalize the cause to yourself. That's what it means not to make excuses.
Here, you think of external things. You know, the road blockages, the computer rebooted, the I was sent the wrong document, the whatever it is.