Good Morning,

Life is a process of elimination. Mistakes are lessons.

One of those inspirational posters you sometimes see hanging in business hallways says, “Good decisions come from experience and experience comes from making bad decisions.” The message is that mistakes contain lessons, and if you learn from them, you can eventually become not only experienced but, I would say, even wise. The implication is that if you make as many mistakes as possible, as quickly as possible, you’ll reach that state of experience and wisdom more rapidly. Living your life is a process of elimination.

But the key is how to think about and handle those mistakes to reap their benefits. Here’s how to do it right:

• Acknowledge and take responsibility for your mistake.
• Don’t use this as an opportunity to beat yourself up.
• Extract the lesson.
• Apply the lesson.
• And if you can’t or don’t, figure out why.
• Periodically, step back and take stock.
• Mistakes are good, not bad.
•  Learn the lessons and throw away the rest.

I, really, can’t take credit for this discussion. I have to credit, first, Google followed by the author of the entire discussion, Robert Taibbi. What you see, above is an abbreviated version. For the full article, just click the following link.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fixing-families/202603/make-as-many-mistakes-as-you-can-as-quickly-as-possible

Jim