When other people make decisions with bad outcomes, we tend to focus on the people behind the decision. We can’t seem to shake the belief that good people make good decisions and bad people make bad decisions. It’s easy to think that we would have made a better decision.
When our decisions have bad outcomes, we know the outcomes is not all there is to see. Our thoughts and intentions come into play. We can’t see the thoughts and intentions of others—we only see their actions through a biased lens. We can, however, see our thoughts and intentions. Our bad outcomes happen because we were unlucky.