You hate to work with Mason because he is always late to meetings and rarely has all his materials with him. When people ask Mason about working with you, he says the same things about you. Could it be that both you and Mason are seeing similar shortcomings in each other? You both are using Freud's defense mechanism called:

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Projection is a defense mechanism where individuals attribute their own unacceptable thoughts, feelings, and motives to another person. In this scenario, both you and Mason might be projecting your own shortcomings onto each other, accusing the other of the very faults you possess.

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