hasty judgements

"In general, the way people act depends partly on character and disposition, and partly on circumstances. But when we judge the action of others, we tend to make a fundamental error. We attribute too much to personality and character and too little to situation and context.
When it comes to judging our own actions, we make the opposite error and place too much emphasis on circumstances. In other words, we make personal attributions for the behavior of others, while making situational attributions for our own."

"Never judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes. After that, you can say whatever you like, because you are a mile away and you have his shoes."

--- quoted from "Mind Your Body" from today's straits times.

It's true. When bad things happen, I've seen a lot of examples of people blaming the situations and external factors, instead of checking to see whether the fault lies with themselves...