[theptip]

It’s true, but kind of a non-sequiteur. The post isn’t about getting blocked in general, it’s about the internal reasons/ways that individuals tend to get stuck on their own.

Furthermore, if the story you tell yourself is “I’m great, the main thing that I get stuck on is when others mess up and I need to fix it”, then even if that is in fact true, you miss an opportunity for acquiring self-knowledge by investigating the patterns of self-inflicted stuckness.

Put differently, maybe the mistakes of others are outside your control, but your own weak spots (everybody has them, it’s fine) are within your control to improve upon. And one of the more important jobs of a good manager is to use the 30k ft view to help individuals to spot and work on improving these patterns.