"So perhaps, it might have been instructive for him to think about why he was being singled out for this excuse." Why? If he'd done that, he'd probably still

"So perhaps, it might have been instructive for him to think about why he was being singled out for this excuse." Why? If he'd done that, he'd probably still be a middle manager of a bank or telco instead of drawing cartoons and writing in the WSJ.