"That's me, all right!" some people say. "Just plain lazy." "Can't do anything right."
We tend to personalize our errors. We attach them to ourselves. We think of them as our property, as part of our real character. Some biologists and psychologists believe that the way certain people behave is decided, even before they are born, by a chromosome imbalance, which causes them to be criminals, absolving them, to a degree, of responsibility for their actions. This theory has been used as argument for the defense in trials.
Christian Science teaches that all human problems come from mistaken beliefs about God and man. But even after we learn this basic truth in Christian Science, we often go right on thinking of "my" false belief and "my" error of thought.
