“When things go wrong I instinctively point at someone else.”

It's reflexive now — the failure lands and your first move is to find who else to hang it on. It protects your image for an afternoon and erodes your character for good. Owning your wins is the easy half; owning your losses is where the tenet bites. A man who never carries his own failures never grows from them, and everyone around him learns not to trust his version of events.