Passing-The-Buck
What is Passing-The-Buck?
Trying to make it someone else's decision. You don't want the responsibility.
When you might feel passing-the-buck
Passing-The-Buck is a specific form of deflecting, which itself is a type of avoiding. You might experience this feeling in situations where avoiding is present, particularly when the circumstances align with the nuances that define passing-the-buck.
Emotional Hierarchy
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Open Decision-Making Clarity WheelRelated Emotions
Pushing the decision into the future. Later always seems better than now....
Creating reasons to wait. You're buying time you may not need....
Actively preventing progress toward a decision. Movement feels dangerous....
Waiting for external validation or authority to choose for you....
Attempting to hand off the decision. You want to escape the burden....
Pretending the decision doesn't need to be made. Avoidance through denial....