Hi everybody, this is Gadsad. I wanted to discuss with you today the importance of how we attribute causality to the realities that we face.

And it's something that I've discussed previously. For example, I've discussed the self-serving bias, which basically is the following.

People attribute successes internally and failures externally.

I did well on the exam because I'm smart and I studied hard.

I did poorly on the exam because, you know, the professor was a mean and unfair person.

And so in many cases, when you attribute causality in an inaccurate way, it doesn't allow

you to autocorrect to make the necessary adjustments so that you don't repeat the pattern

of failure.

So for example, let's look at another type of attribution error.

It's called the fundamental attribution error.

This is where you attribute, for example,

dispositional qualities to a situational reality.

So if somebody reacts violently,

and the reality is that he's not dispositionally a violent person,

but the situation at hand is what

really forced him to act in a violent manner. If you misattribute something to a situation rather

than to a disposition or vice versa, you're again committing an error of causality. Now, let's

apply to all sorts of situations. Let's suppose you get married and you then get divorced because your marriage failed. Well, there might be reasons that you did things that led to the failure of the marriage. But if you think that all of the causes of the failure of the marriage come from outside of you, then when you

get married again, you're likely to repeat exactly those patterns. There was no self-insight

that allowed you to say, well, here are three things that I was doing that led to the solution

of my marriage. Let's apply it to, if you're a businessman, you're an entrepreneur.

I've known entrepreneurs in my family who could never accept that any decisions that they made

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