Shift from a victim mentality to taking full responsibility for your life, acknowledging that you have the power to shape your circumstances and responses.
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... for what happens to you.Ā Itās tempting to blame your problems on some external factor, but to fix your problems you must have power over them. You canāt have power over aspects of your life unless you take responsibility for them.Ā
Jocko Willinckās idea of Extreme Ownership says in every situation, rather than choose to be a victim and blame others for your suffering, you decide to take responsibility for whatever happens to you.
Sometimes our instinctive reaction to a mistake is to shift blame elsewhere: "It's not my fault."Ā
Taking responsibility for a failure may not be fun. But the act of doing so points out what we can do differently next time. Our actions have a huge influence on the quality of our liv...
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