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Self-Serving Bias

Self-serving bias is the tendency to attribute your successes to your own ability and effort while attributing your failures to external circumstances. You will learn how this bias makes critical feedback feel like an attack on your character rather than information about a specific outcome, and why naming the bias in the moment can reduce defensiveness. You will practice separating a critique of an action from a judgment of your worth.