The Daily Motivator E-Mail Edition brings you a positive, motivational message like this every day in your email. Mistakes Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. You just learned something. Admit your mistakes and examine them carefully. Take responsibility for them, and learn from them.
Mistakes are superb teachers.
Knowing what doesn't work, can be a tremendous help in determining what will work. Tom Watson, the founder of IBM, well understood the value of mistakes. Once, one of his employees made a huge mistake that cost the company millions of dollars. I just spent ten million dollars educating you. Successful, effective people learn from everything that happens, including mistakes.