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September 30th, 2007 — Learning, Lesson, Mistakes, Teaching
…the most powerful lessons come from our own triumphs and errors.
Being wrong can be deadly as in the case of a sky-diver not knowing how to fold a parachute. It’s important to understand the risks of what you are doing and whether they could be serious. The mistakes I’m referring to here aren’t the serious type. They are the choices we make everyday. Accumulated over years these seemingly trivial choices become significant in their impact on your life.
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July 7th, 2007 — Lesson, Mistakes
…knowing of these mistakes…has been a material contributor to my happiness…
The problems plaguing ancient people apparently aren’t all that different from those we still face. More than 2000 years ago the Roman orator Cicero (106 BCE to 43 BCE) listed the following six mistakes of man:
- The delusion that individual advancement is made by crushing others
- The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed
- Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it
- Refusing to set aside trivial preferences
- Neglecting development and refinement of mind and not acquiring the habit of reading and study
- Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do
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