Meditations Pt. 3
Others are learning from your mistakes. They watch you, and correct themselves where you fail. Should you, then, not be doing this as well? Standing back and objectively looking at where you work and where you don’t. Then, most of all, making the necessary adjustments.
Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Trust Me, I’m Lying, The Obstacle Is The Way, Ego Is The Enemy, and other books about marketing, culture, and the human condition. His work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared everywhere from the Columbia Journalism Review to Fast Company. His company, Brass Check, has advised companies such as Google, TASER, and Complex, as well as Grammy Award winning musicians and some of the biggest authors in the world. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Why would you not correct your mistakes? Most people are such lazy sloths that they won’t bother with watching you fail. Then again I suppose when you’re doing great things more people tend to keep a keen eye on you.
Maybe I say, fix whatever you screwed up but don’t make it such a public display that others take notice.
Sounds a lot like Boyd.
Edward,
I don’t think it is saying so much that he is personally inspiring people to learn from his mistakes. It means that if they, and you, are smart enough to know to learn from others’ mistakes, then shouldn’t you also be smart enough to learn from your own? It’s encouraging self-reflection and having the courage to objectively examine your faults, then having the willpower to make the necessary changes to correct these faults and mistakes.
He’s not saying to keep your actions hidden and away from other’s examination. But rather to look at your actions as others can see and examine them.
Bryan put it better than my post did.