By using excuses, children shift the responsibility to someone else, do get rid of guilt and feel good. Thus, they do not take responsibility for their actions or unsuccessful experience, they apologize to themselves and, for example, to the coach, but in this way they will never grow.
It's the same with adults. Too many people blame others for all the troubles in their lives. We blame strangers on the street for making us angry with something, we blame our parents for putting us down, we blame our partner for the lack of marital happiness, we blame, blame, blame...
Living in this way, children and adults alike declare that they are helpless to manage their own lives. By shifting the blame onto someone else, we are effectively stating that in order to change, the one we have blamed must change. Blaming others for your current quality of life is a sad way to be. By doing so, you are only playing the role of a victim. The only way to take your life to the next level is to take real responsibility. You have to say to yourself, "For my results to change, for my life to change, all I have to do is change myself." Change always starts from the inside out. Let us first look for the fault and error in ourselves. This is how real change begins...