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by coisale13 1560 days ago
I find this mindset helpful when working with teams as well.

An example of this is when playing team games, such as Dota, League, Valorant, etc. When you lose, it is very natural to point at every mistake your teammates made and say "If y'all didn't make these mistakes, we would have won". Which often is true, and why people have not stopped blaming each other. However, these people fail to realize that, if only they themselves made less mistakes, they also could have won. The blame is shared. Once a player adopts the mindset of "How can I change what I did to secure a win?" they can actually get better. They need to start focusing on what they have control over.

I think this mindset can be broadened to the workplace or APIs, anything that involves another person's work.

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Hi there. Interesting comment.

I have not tried this in a tram setting, but I can see how, with the right team, it could be valuable, more about fixing the issues than assigning blame.