The Blame Game
I just got back from Rocky Balboa. Now I’m not a big Rocky fan, never really have been. But this movie was very enjoyable. Yes, I can finally proclaimed I “liked” a movie. Shocker, I know.
One of the things that hit me in the movie was something that I had been reading. At some point, in order to get ahead, you have to stop blaming others for what you think they have done to you, and accept responsibility. Only then can you move on.
For years I have thought that I would have done better in Hollywood had certain people not been a royal pain in the butt. I thought it was all their fault I was forced to come back to Iowa. Nevermind the fact that I published a book and finished my degree, I blamed them extensively for being back here. For ending my dreams.
But I could have prevented it.
I had a choice on how to deal with difficult people. And my lack-of-experience as a 22 year old from Iowa suddenly working for Warner Bros. caused me to make many, many errors in how I dealt with animosity, political games at work, and other professional relationships. In other words, I was also to blame.
So, from this day on, I say publicly that I forgive them all. Guy, Joe, Kevin T., Elizabeth, Jim B., hell even Steve Case himself. I forgive you for everything you might have said or done to throw up roadblocks in my career. But you didn’t block me, maybe just… derailed for a little while.
For another scene in Rocky Balboa says (paraphrasing) that it isn’t how hard or how many times you are hit, but how you get up and recover afterwards that shows what kind of person you are.
I emerge now, in 2007, free of blame.
And things are going to be different.
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