Coaching practices for When Someone Lets Me Down I Instantly Decide It's Just Who They Are Selfish Careless Rude and I Never Even Notice I've Skipped Right Past Asking What Might've Been Going on for Them

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• When someone lets me down I instantly decide it’s just who they are
• I extend everyone else this generosity, but when I mess up I go straight to "I’m lazy, I’m a failure, this is just who I am"
• I caught one snappish moment from someone and built a whole judgment of them on it, forgetting I have no idea what they’re carrying today
• When someone’s short with me or drops the ball I go straight to "that’s just who they are
• When someone does one thoughtless thing I write them off entirely

Practices that may help

1. Catch the attribution error
   Notice when you’re explaining someone’s behavior by their character instead of their situation.
   Generous Interpretation
2. Apply the razor to yourself
   Extend to your own past actions the same charitable interpretation you give others.
   Hanlon's Razor: Never Attribute to Malice What Stupidity Can Explain
3. Remember what you can’t see
   You’re reacting to a sliver of their behavior with no view of the pressures behind it.
   Generous Interpretation
4. Default to attributional charity for others’ behavior
   When someone acts in a way that seems wrong, first generate a situational explanation before a dispositional one.
   Naive Realism: Why Everyone Thinks They See Things as They Are
5. Extend unconditional acceptance to others
   Apply the same anti-rating logic to other people — separating what they did from what they are.
   Unconditional Self-Acceptance
6. Notice and question the story you’ve already told yourself
   Between the missed commitment and the conversation, you have built a narrative — and that narrative will leak into the conversation.
   Crucial Accountability: Holding People to Commitments That Matter
7. Set charitable interpretation as your cognitive default
   Deliberately adopt the assumption that people are probably doing their best given their constraints.
   Hanlon's Razor: Never Attribute to Malice What Stupidity Can Explain
8. Know when generosity becomes denial
   Charitable interpretation has limits — patterns and real harm call for clear eyes, not endless excuses.
   Generous Interpretation
9. Apply anti-goals to relationships and collaborators
   Naming the relational patterns you refuse to accept prevents you from optimising for the wrong things in who you work or live with.
   Anti-Goals: Defining Success by What You Refuse to Accept
10. Be Fair: include yourself in the fairness you extend to others
    Apply the same standards of fairness to yourself that you would to someone you respect.
    FAST: DBT’s Skill for Maintaining Self-Respect in Relationships

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