“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”
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Excuses protect the ego briefly but block the correction that would improve the next attempt.
When to use it
- At the start of today’s work, replace one excuse with a controllable cause and one change for the next study session.
- Use the same principle on one difficult subject: replace one excuse with a controllable cause and one change for the next study session, then note what changed.
- Try it with a classmate or study group: replace one excuse with a controllable cause and one change for the next study session, and compare the result at the end of the week.