Reinforcing the importance of dumb mistakes... A friend wrote a heartfelt essay in a campus magazine that the rest of us found laughable. We taunted and laughe

Reinforcing the importance of dumb mistakes... A friend wrote a heartfelt essay in a campus magazine that the rest of us found laughable. We taunted and laughed at him for years about it. A couple years ago he won a Pulitzer Prize. The lineage from that essay to the prize is obvious in retrospect to me and probably looking forward for him at the time. It's never too late for your dumb mistake. I'm 46 and my just-released podcast -- https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leadership-and-the-environment/id1320141457 https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leadership-and-the-envir... -- which opened at #38 in Science on iTunes, emerged from laughable mistakes I made public speaking on the environment earlier this year.