" It is worth noting here, if only briefly, the link between blame and cognitive dissonance. In a culture where mistakes are considered blameworthy they are also likely to be dissonant. When the external culture stigmatizes mistakes, professionals are likely to internalize these attitudes. Blame and dissonance, in effect, are driven by the same misguided attitude to error, "

― Matthew Syed , Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do