I will start today by telling you: "Don’t Learn from your Mistakes" This may seem contrary to what you have learned, but it is true; here's what I mean by that.
Successful people don’t learn from their mistakes; they learn from their successes.
You may have heard the several variations on what Edison said about having made 1,000 or 10,000 (depending on what version you hear) mistakes when he finally invented the light bulb. His answer was that he didn’t make the 1,000 or 10,000 mistakes, he simply found 1,000 or 10,000 ways that didn’t work! This tells me that Edison did not learn from his mistakes but that he “looked at things differently” and learned from his successes.
Today dwell on your past successes (not your mistakes) and know that if you succeeded in one area, no matter how small, in the past, that you can succeed in something, no matter how big, today. Donald Trump says to dream big because it takes just as much work to dream big as it does to dream small.
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