Narcissists love to play the blame game. Narcissists often internalize failure, and their first reaction to any kind of failure is usually to feel shame, rather than guilt, responsibility, or determination to improve for next time. Shame is something narcissists seek to avoid, so they blame someone else for their failures. It cannot possibly be their fault that they have failed; the blame lies with the coworker who didn’t help, the teacher who has never liked them, the partners who never believed in them in the first place; the list goes on and on.
