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Teachable Moments
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve gotten better at not looking at my past mistakes with regret, because regret feels so powerless. I can’t change what happened, but I can learn from it.
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I agree, Wendy. As well as regrets are so past-centric. I have been working on meditation and mindset and really trying to focus more on the future. Also my ever-patient boss said to me once “if you’re not failing, you’re not learning”.
Along the same lines, here’s another phrase that I like – fail forward.