You've got to take responsibility and own your mistakes.

Hey everyone, it's Dr. L. here with Spartan Mind, your chief mind doc. And today we're going to talk about accepting responsibility.

I mean, really the best way for me to say it is that you got to accept responsibility. You've got to own your own mistakes.

And the reason that you have to do that is because it's going to be difficult for you

to change and recognize things that might need some tweaking

if you don't own responsibility.

Okay?

So one of the things that we do actually

when we don't want to own a mistake

or don't want to take responsibility

for something is we offload, right?

So we make it somebody else's fault.

So maybe it's a friend's fault or a family member's fault or something.

It doesn't always have to be someone.

It could be something's fault.

And that sort of gets us outside of owning a mistake that we might

have had or taking responsibility for a way in which we've engaged in

something. So let me give you an example of this. Let's say you've just finished running a Spartan race

and you've failed the rope and it was rainy.

So you're driving home in the car and you think to yourself,

well, I failed that because it was raining.

If the weather were different, then I probably wouldn't have failed.

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