The hardest part of (self) evaluation

It isn’t when things are going well, because that’s easy to attribute to one’s own efforts. We are so easily seduced by this.

The hardest part is assessing when things are broken. Far too often, we want to blame ourselves. But this isn’t the whole picture. Perhaps the effort is there but isn’t in the right place. Or you have it in the right direction. It just isn’t going to work.

We are usually not on our own time but someone else’s. It takes tremendous courage to say, “Yes, this isn’t working. But I’m doing everything I can to turn it around.”

We are not good at giving credit to ourselves when things fall apart.