<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Accountability and self-punishment can look... > Accountability and self-punishment can look identical from the outside, but they lead in opposite directions. Self-punishment replays the failure, inflicts the feeling, and promises improvement, then leaves the behavior exactly where it was; accountability examines the failure long enough to design a different response. Shame asks what is wrong with you. Accountability asks what you will do differently, when, and how you will know whether it worked. **Source:** [[livestreams/Accountability, Self-Confrontation, and Conscious Change - Workbook|Accountability, Self-Confrontation, and Conscious Change]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Accountability and self-punishment can look identical from the outside, but they lead in opposite directions. Self-punishment replays the failure, inflicts the feeling, and promises improvement, then leaves the behavior exactly where it was; accountability examines the failure long enough to design a different response. Shame asks what is wrong with you. Accountability asks what you will do differently, when, and how you will know whether it worked.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-accountability-self-punishment-know-whether-worked ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->