Learning from your mistakes
Just ran across a very interesting site about learning from your mistakes. Here’s the opening line of the entry: “You can only learn from a mistake after you admit you’ve made it. As soon as you start blaming other people (or the universe itself) you distance yourself from any possible lesson.”
www.scottberkun.com
That reminds me of a comment my wife has made for my benefit on many occassions: “You can’t learn something if you think you already know it.” People who assume they know what they’re doing repeat the same kinds of mistakes over and over without ever learning from them. I’ve found a comment made by an acquaintance many years ago comes in handy for me to break out of that failure-to-do loop: “First, assume you don’t know anything about this.” The first time I heard this from him, I bristled. Then I learned that it works amazingly.
