Consequences are tuition. Pay attention in class so you don’t have to take it twice.

Every consequence arrives with information attached, and the cost of it is already spent whether or not you collect what it taught you. The waste is not in getting something wrong. It is in walking away without looking at why, which leaves the same lesson waiting further down the road in a more expensive form.

When something goes badly this week, give it ten minutes before you move on. Write down what you would do differently at the exact point where it turned. That small act is the difference between paying once and paying twice.