Whose Fault Is It?

The blame game is universal. This mini podcast points the way out of that trap.

 Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades. 

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Transcript

Whose Fault Is It?

The notion of blame has been around forever. In fact, I’m pretty sure Adam and Eve started it in the Garden of Eden. One ate the apple, the other pointed fingers, and humanity’s been doing the same thing ever since.

The problem with blame is that it assumes every bad situation has to be somebody’s fault. And once we decide that, the next instinct is figuring out who’s going to pay the price.

And deep down, most of us have the same immediate reaction: “Please don’t let it be me.”

That’s when anger shows up. And once anger arrives, we start looking for a scapegoat.

Even when we’re clearly responsible for our own mess, our first impulse is often escape.

Picture this: You’re in a supermarket parking lot. You swing open your car door without looking and ding the car next to you.

What’s the first thing most people do?

They look around to see if anyone saw it.

That reaction happens almost instantly. It’s fear. Fear looking for a way out.

Then the mind starts ranting.

“Why did they park so close to me?” Or . . .“I’m such an idiot.”

Either way, blame takes over. Sometimes we point the finger outward. Sometimes inward. But both responses keep us stuck in the same emotional loop.

And while we’re busy assigning fault, we’re not solving anything.

That’s the trap.

The way out starts with recognition. The moment you notice you’re spiraling into blame, you create a little space between what happened and how you respond to it.

That space changes everything.

Because once you stop feeding the anger, another option appears — responsibility, clarity, maybe even a solution.

The key is learning to catch yourself early.

Just noticing the thought loop is often enough to interrupt it.

Recognition is the wedge between stimulus and response. It keeps emotion from grabbing the steering wheel long enough for wisdom to show up.

And that’s how you end the blame game.

All the best,

John