Blame Yourself for Everything, and Preserve Your Agency
BlogPaul GrahamJun 14, 2025
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Recent essay. The mental move that compounds the most: take responsibility for outcomes you didn't cause. Not because it's fair, but because it's the only stance from which you can act. Lose agency and you lose everything. The cost of self-blame is small; the cost of helplessness is everything.
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