Thursday, April 09, 2009
A study on how we are always unable to see our own mistakes
This is the feeling I had yesterday when we finally told someone about how much we dislike the attitude and performance of another individual. In essence, the person in question is my colleague, and had been giving quite a lot of trouble to us, with poor work attitude and disrespect to individuals, coupled with cockiness and indulgence in privileges given to him. Ok I'm not making much sense there but anyway, he has been quite a trouble. We haven't been able to talk to him because he's rather haughty and not exactly receptive towards others' opinions, which really piss me off. Throughout our conversation while we emptied our unhappiness and concerns, I realised sometimes when we are critical of another person's mistakes, we somewhat forget about our own faults, just like what my friends and I did.
It's interesting how humans work. While we can cooperate for the benefit of all, it's normal for us to bring down someone who deviates out of the norm, our norm, and even while the group might be making certain similar mistakes as that that the individual makes, in pushing him out of the group, or alienating him, we tend to make it seem as if the certain mistake is only bad in his case, and not ours.
Indeed we're not being very fair.
i was with you @ 10:00 pm
