You’ll still make bad calls. The skill is noticing them faster each time.

RESILIENCE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Nobody stops making mistakes. What changes with practice is the lag between making one and realising it, which is where most of the damage lives. A wrong turn caught in a minute is nothing. The same wrong turn caught in a month has had a month to compound.

Build in one small check: a glance back at the work before you call it done, or a question to someone who would notice what you missed. When something does go wrong, ask what the earliest visible sign was. Learning to spot that sign is more useful than trying never to need it.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

How long did it take you to admit your last mistake?

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