New essay: how to learn from your mistakes

If you’re doing something interesting, mistakes are inevitable. How you learn from your mistakes defines what kinds of mistakes you’ll make the next time: the same ones? New ones? Mistakes that get you closer to success or move you away from it?

How to learn from your mistakes.

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  • McGee’s Musings » Learning from your mistakes - August 22, 2006 at 12:08 pm

  • [...] Some good advice about the important role of mistakes and what to do with them. My goal has always been to make “interesting mistakes.” New essay: how to learn from your mistakes. If you're doing something interesting, mistakes are inevitable. How you learn from your mistakes defines what kinds of mistakes you'll make the next time: the same ones? new ones? mistakes that get you closer to success or move you away from it? [...]


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