Why Make Mistakes, Learn From Someone Else’s Experiences

[ajkumar]

I've written an article called "Why Make Mistakes, Learn From Someone Else’s Experiences"


It's only 3 minutes of reading, but to summarize it, I write about taking knowledge from other people's experiences to your advantage to prevent you from making the same mistakes.

Would anyone be interested in sharing a business mistake they've made in the past that we can learn from?

[bbdream8]

By learning from others mistake, we can cut short our learning curve and streamline our way to achieve results. That is why books and information are valuable to us as they can help us to learn from mistakes that others had make and not to do it.

Cheers
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger

[ajkumar]

Originally Posted by bbdream8

By learning from others mistake, we can cut short our learning curve and streamline our way to achieve results. That is why books and information are valuable to us as they can help us to learn from mistakes that others had make and not to do it.

Cheers
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger

well put!!

[MisterEThoughts]

I personally use books as my learning from others. I take notes, write essays and debate with others about the information I have gathered.

[ajkumar]

Originally Posted by MisterEThoughts

I personally use books as my learning from others. I take notes, write essays and debate with others about the information I have gathered.

Great idea, debating can be very fun! I actually hated the though of debating with someone when I was younger. That all changed as my confidence grew, now I'm always looking to get into one

[fourth]

Another way of looking at mistakes is to see them as a fence that puts you back on the true path to your goal. Seeing other peoples path doesn't tell you why they chose that direction and not really knowing what mistakes they made means that if you follow them you could be setting yourself up for a bigger fall further down the track. There is a technique called 'failing fast' which means you get the experience of failure early on with less invested effort.

Just a thought.

[ajkumar]

Originally Posted by fourth

Another way of looking at mistakes is to see them as a fence that puts you back on the true path to your goal. Seeing other peoples path doesn't tell you why they chose that direction and not really knowing what mistakes they made means that if you follow them you could be setting yourself up for a bigger fall further down the track. There is a technique called 'failing fast' which means you get the experience of failure early on with less invested effort.

Just a thought.

I agree that you should fail forward fast. However, a lot of the mistakes that people make can usually be prevented by learning from others. Wither it be business mistakes, personal mistakes, or whatever.

Guy Kawasaki commented on my post just yesterday and let me know he wrote a book about this very thing where he interviewed over a hundred people about the mistakes they made:

http://adjix.com/apug


AJ Kumar

[magi13]

^^ my law professor always tells us this all the time. Learn from others so that others don't have to learn from you.

It's a good saying, and it's a very very very wonderful way to achieve things. ^^

[ajkumar]

Originally Posted by magi13

^^ my law professor always tells us this all the time. Learn from others so that others don't have to learn from you.

It's a good saying, and it's a very very very wonderful way to achieve things. ^^

smart professor

[fionamydear]

some things in life r better learnt when v do mistakes....