learning on Learning from Your Mistakes

Any fool can learn from his mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not se...

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

At eighteen, a self-assured Benjamin Franklin returned to Boston, the city he had fled just seven months earlier. Dressed in a fine new suit, with a watch on his wrist and a pocket full of coins, he p...

The prefrontal cortex is responsible for the success of the human species. It enables us to learn from our mistakes and make plans. When the PFC is healthy, we behave consistently in ways that enable ...

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

Today is Yesterday's Pupil.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

When people fail, we are inclined to find fault with them, but if you look more closely, you will find that God had some particular truth for them to learn, which the trouble they are in is to teach t...

“We learn from failure, not from success!”

A stumble may prevent a fall.

The point of discourse is to learn with and from one another. I used to tell my students that at least 20 percent of what I was telling them was wrong, but I didn't know which 20 percent it was: I...

The point of discourse is to learn with and from one another. I used to tell my students that at least 20 percent of what I was telling them was wrong, but I didn't know which 20 percent it was: I...

One of the reasons failure can be so crushing is that we set goals of success, instead of improvement and learning.

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Peter Drucker suggests that we should always sustain two streams of learning and self-improvement. And though he is speaking specifically about work and career, what he says is equally applicable whet...

The bottom line is this: never grow complacent. Never grow tired of learning. As soon as we stop learning we lose the capacity to grow and mature in our work and our relationships. This continual lear...

The best learning I had came from teaching.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Repetitio mater studiorum est. (Repetition is the mother of learning.)

The late comedian Sam Levenson enjoyed sharing funny anecdotes about his childhood, especially his early school days. One of his favorite stories was about his first day of school, when his overly pro...

Becoming a teachable person has two prerequisites: There must be a teacher and a person willing to be taught. Increasingly, Western culture has become an environment that celebrates and platforms the ...

That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience, is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by reading.

Learn to understand more by not understanding than by understanding.

Receiving feedback sits at the intersection of these two needs—our drive to learn and our longing for acceptance.

“I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid aga...