The Myth of the External Actor

We tend to think that problems are caused by other people – the source of the issue is external to us – not realizing that to these other people, we are the other people. Traffic is a classic example. We tend to complain about traffic without acknowledging hat to be negatively affected by traffic, we have to be in the traffic ourselves, thus being part of the problem. The traffic is not a problem external to us. We are part of the traffic.