Tag: learning
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Multi-Tasking is Over-Rated
All of my best accidents and mistakes — I’ve made the Greatest Hits List of Whoppers — have resulted from multi-tasking. Like saying “yes” to things I don’t really want to say yes to because I wasn’t paying attention and was elsewhere mentally occupied. Like breaking a toe and having it be serious enough that…
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So What — You Made a Mistake. Now What?
So what — you made a mistake. Not the end of the world. Not the end of your story. Not even the end of the chapter you’re in. Somewhere along the way, many of us absorbed the false belief that mistakes define us. That one misstep reveals something irrefutable about our character. That getting something…
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The Flipside of Misfortune
Today I want to talk about The saying “misfortune makes us wise.” I relate to this because having been alive for over 60 years and in business for over 45 years — when I reflect back — I’d have to say that I learned the most when things weren’t going quite the way I wanted. …