The easiest thing anyone can do is to find fault with others. Do you know why? We are so familiar with them, having been associated with such faults sometime or other. If you think I am wrong, just have this checked. When you learn any skill, you commit quite a few mistakes while learning. Later when someone else is committing the same mistakes, you can recognize them. You can't recognize a mistake unless you are exposed to it first.
Sometimes we also learn about mistakes by seeing others committing them. But the mistakes we have committed are more readily recognized.
Even after you have become perfect in a skill or activity, you may commit mistakes. It is not uncommon for a person with a long experience in driving a car to commit a mistake that only a novice can be expected to commit.
Faults include mistakes in doing things as well as defects in one's personality, perception, understanding etc. If we realize that we have several faults, we will not waste our energy in looking into the faults of others.
"I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others." - Mahatma Gandhi
If this is what Mahatma Gandhi, a person with very few faults says, people like me handicapped with multiple faults should be much more wary of looking into the faults of others.
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