You think, I’ve got that boss, so I can’t work. This is complete etiology. But it’s really, I don’t want to work, so I’ll create an awful boss, or I don’t want to acknowledge my incapable self, so I’ll create an awful boss. That would be the teleological way of looking at it.
Teleological way of looking: for its purpose, not its cause. The excuses are put in place to take away your responsibility to do your best work.
