I love the concept, very useful for one’s own mental hygene to notice slipping into a justification mindset and I expect if you manage to put it to regular use in social situations, it can really become the equivalent of some oil on the gears of tedious and annoying conversation.
I sometimes have to deal with people who are always late and never ever get anything done on time or as promised, possibly due to procrastination, and their instinct is to justify it because it seems that their entire strategy of getting through life is built around the concept of getting around responsibility by always justifying everything. In fact though, at this point their constant justifications annoy me even more than the fact they they don’t get it done on time, which in such cases I already assumed and factored in anyway. For such cases I find I’m already used to cutting their BS shorter with a very close variant of HWA: “Oh well, what’s done is done. How do you think we should deal with it?”.
I love the concept, very useful for one’s own mental hygene to notice slipping into a justification mindset and I expect if you manage to put it to regular use in social situations, it can really become the equivalent of some oil on the gears of tedious and annoying conversation.
I sometimes have to deal with people who are always late and never ever get anything done on time or as promised, possibly due to procrastination, and their instinct is to justify it because it seems that their entire strategy of getting through life is built around the concept of getting around responsibility by always justifying everything. In fact though, at this point their constant justifications annoy me even more than the fact they they don’t get it done on time, which in such cases I already assumed and factored in anyway. For such cases I find I’m already used to cutting their BS shorter with a very close variant of HWA: “Oh well, what’s done is done. How do you think we should deal with it?”.