The Excuse Trap

Context

Accepting failure or approaching challenges is uncomfortable. To avoid the discomfort, we often make excuses to minimize the impact or deflect to protect ourselves. It’s important to minimize the excuses, embrace the discomfort, and address the reality of the failure or challenge.

Outcome

Bring awareness to our tendency to use excuses
Develop strategies to be comfortable in the uncomfortable.

Main Questions

Why do you think we naturally look for comfort when things get hard?
Are there common excuses you use when faced with discomfort?
As a team, where do we use excuses most often?
What would it look like to embrace discomfort rather than the comfort of making excuses?

Citations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsJ2Pq8L1-M

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