<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Honesty about one's own role restores leverage.... > Honesty about one's own role restores leverage. Asking how one contributes to recurring conflict, consciously or not, shifts attention from blame to the parts of the pattern a person can actually change. Admitting partial responsibility is a powerful act. **Source:** [[livestreams/Boundaries, Survival, and Refusing to Become a Toxic Dumping Ground — Part 1 - Workbook|Boundaries, Survival, and Refusing to Become a Toxic Dumping Ground — Part 1]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Honesty about one's own role restores leverage. Asking how one contributes to recurring conflict, consciously or not, shifts attention from blame to the parts of the pattern a person can actually change. Admitting partial responsibility is a powerful act.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-honesty-ones-own-responsibility-powerful-act ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->