Make your own mistakes
After reading the article I published a longer time ago a friend asked me to share some of my recent fails, mistakes I have done. "Avoid mistakes, learn from those of others", I heard many times during my childhood. However, the culture I practice and preach is a bit different: "Make your own mistakes and try not to repeat them".
As our career progresses I would bet we all have to make the basic mistakes: presuming instead of asking and finding out; doing something without having a consent to do so; not having any other but an oral confirmation; speaking when supposed to be listening; etc.
The more of them you made, the better for you - your experience becomes yours, thus the learnings are stronger.
Originally, when I started writing this article, I wanted to share some of my biggest mistakes, but then I realised it would help my friend so much more if he wrote down the learnings from mistakes he has done and think about those, instead of reading an unrelated experience of somebody else.
Life would be so easy if it was like a golf game. Luckily it is not, as the only two things you can mess up in golf are the distance and the direction - or actually both of them at the same time.
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