I once worked in an institution of which I noted, The thing that travels fastest in this place is the blame. I thought it was a clever thing to say, and had about it the virtue of truth.
I still think that, but I now know that one of the most corrosive aspects of my personality is an automatic impulse to blame others for anything that goes wrong for me. Fortunately I don't, or at least I think I don't, make this public. And fortunately I generally keep the impulse in check. But it's still there, and it's still automatic.
No wonder I could see it so clearly in others.
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