Pay for a college education. Read a self-help book. Find a mentor. There are many ways that we look to others in an attempt to improve ourselves. However, I believe that sometimes we are our own best teachers. No, I’m not saying we have some innate ability to know how to do something without any instructions. Instead, we tend to be experts at screwing up really badly, and if we take the time to examine what we did wrong, we can learn not to repeat those mistakes in the future. One of those key moments for me was way back when I was attending elementary school, and it’s a lesson I never forgot.
In 5th and 6th grade…
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