Din când în când, mai primesc una-două chestii geniale de pe la prieteni. De această dată, Alex, proaspăt căutător de job cu oportunități normale de a face treabă și nu numa muncă de negrii, mi-a trimis niște vorbe pe care vi le redau mai jos ... pentru că se potrivesc de minune cu filosofia mea de viață ... ;)

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct it, and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success. "Success," said IBM founder T. J. Watson, "is on the far side of failure." But not to acknowledge a mistake, not to correct it and learn from it, is a mistake of a different order. It usually puts a person on a self-deceiving, self-justifying path, often involving rationalization (rational lies) to self and to others. This second mistake, this cover-up, empowers the first, giving it disproportionate importance, and causes far deeper injury to self.