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What to Do If You Really Messed It Up
Recover from mistakes like a pro
The best people I know are the imperfect ones. The ones that are human, who are vulnerable, who make wrong decisions. The best people out there are not superhumans, not flawless. They are human, and as humans, sometimes they mess it up. Really badly.
It can be about external circumstances, a streak of bad luck, a period of misfortunate events leading to wrong decisions. It can be about ego, about an error in judgement, about being too emotional when you would need a cool head.
It can be about choosing the wrong partner or walking away from the right one. It can be about leaving a job just before the company goes big or staying for too long in a job when it is clearly a bad fit. It can be about trusting someone who shouldn’t be trusted. It can be about making the wrong investment choice and losing a life’s savings overnight. It can be about hurting a loved one — by accident or deliberately. It can be about making the wrong decision based on the right facts. It can be a lot of things that might make us feel that this time, it’s done, it’s messed up and there are consequences.
But no matter how much you messed up, the real question is how you handle the situation.
