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There's about 10,000 little painful lessons like this, that you usually learn by making the mistake and cursing repeatedly and vowing never to let it happen aga
by lionhearted 17y ago
There's about 10,000 little painful lessons like this, that you usually learn by making the mistake and cursing repeatedly and vowing never to let it happen again.
If you're lucky, you'll be able to pick up a few of the 10,000 painful mistake lessons from reading about them or being taught them. But most of us are rockheaded and insist on making the same mistakes as everyone else until it's happened to us. Better to learn from a close associate or someone else's story when possible, but people aren't so good at that. But life goes on, as it were. Making those mistakes is where a lot of your skill and lessons come from.
- cunard-n 17y agoI find that the corellary is that it's this pain and these lessons that give you such a leg up on the recent graduates just getting into the business. They don't know how close everyone always is to the line. This relates back to the old "don't spend money on office furniture" (in a startup) advice.