A few years back, I realised for the first time that I and many people I knew were champions in making excuses. Let me give you a real-life example of what I mean by that:
The other day, I was delivering a personal development / leadership training for a group of A-level students. At the end of the training, I asked them to rate their level of participation in the training. They rated themselves a three out of ten. They could have participated as a ten but well, they didn’t. Looking at that result, something interesting happened to me: I could hear my brain automatically making up some great stories. I had inner-voices whispering, “Yeah it’s understandable. It’s way to warm for anyone to participate as a ten”; “It’s a difficult group”; “Well, a ‘three’ is better than a ‘two'”; and the best one: “It’s because we are in the school environment and no one likes school”.
