When do mistakes work?
Photo by Sarah Kilian on Unsplash
-When you look for and take the gift or learning-
Perhaps the incident in this photo saved someone from feeling sick later, opened the opportunity to get a new flavor or shifted their timing to avoid bad traffic.
All we know for sure is stressing too much over spilled ice cream is a waste!
Many of my readers have careers where mistakes are costly in both life and money,
I am not encouraging mistakes.
However, mistakes give an opportunity to look at processes and applications –
think post it notes, penicillin, and even cookies!
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Asking thoughtful questions is one aspect.
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