Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Use failures as lessons and successes as foundations for future growth.
- In plain terms
- Fix errors and repeat what works.
- What can you take from it?
- Improve by learning from both wins and losses.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How to turn mistakes into lessons?
- When to stop repeating success?
Another view
Mistakes aren't always easy to learn from.
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