Also known as: Fundamental Attribution Error
Attributing personal successes to internal factors (e.g., skill, effort) and failures to external factors (e.g., bad luck, external conditions).
Take responsibility for failures and learn from them, while recognizing the external factors that contributed to successes.
The tendency to attribute others’ actions to their character or disposition while attributing your own actions to external circumstances.
Take a more empathetic approach in evaluating others’ behavior, considering situational factors rather than rushing to judgment about their character.