One of the activities during the workshop on entrepreneurial competences was "our mistakes". Participants were asked to list mistakes that they had made during the production season, on different phases of the production and explain what they had learned from those mistakes.
Today, my morning reading at the beach, with the sound of the waves in the background, was "decision making" chapter from the book "Smarter Faster Better, the transformative power of real productivity", by Charles Duhigg.
I remembered the list of the mistakes that the farmers had written down and I thought that everybody usually talks about success and failures are rarely mentioned, especially in media.
Good choices concerning the future are based in forecasting. We make predictions based in assumptions and assumptions are made according to our experiences. What if we use only our positive experience? Will we get the right assumptions?
Successful people have spent a lot of time exploring information on failures.
We need to expose ourselves to both success and failure stories, so that we make more accurate predictions. We need to remember our mistakes and I think that it would be quite useful to keep a diary of failures. It may be hard, because it's easier to look and think about our successful stories. But if we want our kids or students to be able to cope with the uncertainty of the future, we need highlight the importance of learning from mistakes and failures.
Today, my morning reading at the beach, with the sound of the waves in the background, was "decision making" chapter from the book "Smarter Faster Better, the transformative power of real productivity", by Charles Duhigg.
I remembered the list of the mistakes that the farmers had written down and I thought that everybody usually talks about success and failures are rarely mentioned, especially in media.
Good choices concerning the future are based in forecasting. We make predictions based in assumptions and assumptions are made according to our experiences. What if we use only our positive experience? Will we get the right assumptions?
Successful people have spent a lot of time exploring information on failures.
We need to expose ourselves to both success and failure stories, so that we make more accurate predictions. We need to remember our mistakes and I think that it would be quite useful to keep a diary of failures. It may be hard, because it's easier to look and think about our successful stories. But if we want our kids or students to be able to cope with the uncertainty of the future, we need highlight the importance of learning from mistakes and failures.
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