Admitting You Are Wrong

A proper apology

consists of conveying the 3 Rs:

regret (genuine empathy with the other)

responsibility (not blaming someone else)

and remedy (your willingness to fix it).

The problem lies in who is responsible for the want. It is your want, not his. You are responsible for getting it fulfilled. That is a rule of life. We do not get everything we want, and we all must grieve over our disappointments instead of punish others for them.”

When we fail, we often conceal it, distort it, or deny it. We make the facts fit our self-serving theory rather than adjust the theory to fit the facts. We attribute our failure to factors beyond our control. In our own failures, we overestimate the role of bad luck (“Better luck next time”). We blame the failure on someone else (“She got the job b

How to say you’re sorry