Problem:
We've talked about people's behavior, particularly behavior that is self-destructive in some professional or personal way, and social scientists and psychologists offer myriad explanations (excuses?) for this ranging from environmental causes ( something else is responsible for my bad behavior) or genetic causes (someone else, my parents, are responsible) or physical causes (I have an illness). The common thread here is, it's not my fault. I'm not responsible.
Covey hits on the truth of where responsibility lies when he talks about a stick where one end is the behavior and the other end is the consequence of that behavior. And, when you choose the behavior, you also choose the consequence that is attached to it. The two cannot be separated.
Society has allowed people, at least in their minds, to separate the two.
What do you think about this idea? If you find some merit to it, what can we do collectively and individually to reconnect, in people's minds, behavior and its consequence?