Taking accountability is hard. Placing blame is easy. One action builds trust, the other destroys it. @Hasan Minhaj and I discuss this and more in the latest episode of A Bit of Optimism.

as I was climbing the ranks of standup comedy and I had day jobs where I'd have to go work in an office, all of those things of whose fault is it? It was hot potato. Who's in charge? Hot potato. Like blame, responsibility, all of these things become obfuscated through Slack, iMessage, emails, cell phones, and bureaucracy. Whereas I've seen more courage in my daughter's first grade class of like, I'm the one who let the team down and I am sorry, you know? Or like, I'm the one that will lead the team to victory. Here I am. And I just, I think, I don't know what it is about adulthood that teaches us that, but it sucks. I don't want to be blamed. I don't want to put myself out there. And I just see so much, I see the opposite with kids. There's so much courage. They're still brave. The irony is, is we have to aspire to be like that. And that's kind of what we teach, right? Like I love getting advice from old people because they don't care what you think about them anymore. Totally. They don't care anymore. And so like old people and young people, like two old. Super old and super young. Like really close to birth and really close to death. That's really like the purest form. Totally, totally, yeah, yeah. And then we mess it up in the middle to get to the end and be like, I should have stayed like the beginning. 100%.