Why Smart Leaders Learn More From Mistakes Than Books

You can read every book on a subject.

And still learn more from one bad decision than all of them combined.

Learning just works that way.

Theory teaches you what to think about.
Practice teaches you what happens when you try it.
Mistakes teach you the thing neither of those can.

What it feels like when it goes wrong, and what you'd do differently next time.

A lot of people are wired to avoid that third one entirely.

Which means they're avoiding the tier that teaches them the most.

The people who move faster than everyone else have usually just made more mistakes, faster, and paid attention to them afterward.

Nobody wants to hear this while it's happening.

It only makes sense looking back.

What's a mistake that taught you more than any book ever could?

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