Don’t Make the Same Old Mistakes—Make New Ones
Failure doesn’t guarantee learning, just the chance to learn!

As the dot-com death spiral continues, a friend said, “it was painful, but I learned a lot.’ Eager to learn without suffering the pain myself, I ask, “What did you learn?” He lists five lessons, all pretty obvious—for just $100 million (none of it his) and four years. There’s gotta be a cheaper way. We say we learn from our mistakes, but few of us really extract quality learning from our experience. If you’re going to make mistakes, make them thoroughly, and learn well from them.

Schedule time for learning. Don’t assume it happens automatically; it usually doesn’t…

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