It was in THE NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY MAGAZINE that I had read that Ana Marie Cox, current Digital Princess Warrior, had had her share of professional upsets. And she was young. There I was in my 50s sitting on a pile of professional mistakes. And, okay, the new failure champions tell us how wonderful failure is for success, but it is a costly experience, especially emotionally. Back then circa 2005, I was drained and shaken by evidence of my own myopia.
Now I get it: Those who make the most mistakes win. That's because we're out there trying new things. Via that experimentation, we enhance our knowledge of the world and its human element, our own strengths and weaknesses, and where the emerging opportunities are.
In GAME CHANGE by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, we witness how Hillary Clinton built her new career runway on all the mistakes both she and Bill made. It was Barack Obama's mistaken path into the U.S. Senate that led him and his supporters to discern his fitness to run for and win the White House.
Other examples of the edge mistakes give us? Come on. There is an infinite number of names on that list. They range from Apple's Steve Jobs to spiritual leader Eckhart Tolle.
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