Navigators mark hazards on the chart so nobody hits the same rock twice. Write down your own rocks.

LEADERSHIP

WHAT THIS MEANS

Hitting a rock once is painful; hitting the same one twice is a filing problem. Charts exist because memory is unreliable and crews change, so the knowledge lives on paper rather than in one person’s head. Your own mistakes are exactly that kind of information. Left unwritten, they fade into a vague unease instead of a warning you can use.

Start a note on your phone and add a line whenever something goes wrong: what happened, what you would do differently. Read it before similar situations. Three months of that beats most advice anybody else can give you.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which mistake have you now made twice without recording it?

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