What is the best thing a teacher told you?

[Deep]

My teacher once said, 'Mistakes are proof you're trying. It helped me embrace challenges without fear of failure

 

[Mike30]

He was not my school teacher, but he was my second employer(when I was 19)

"Once you have a job, do it with the same enthusiasm as if the business were yours, that
will help you to grow within that job, and also teaches you the attitude needed to start your own business" -- Javier Elizabeth.

(I started my own construction company with 5 employees by the age of 20 making over 120k/year -- that was a lot of money back then)

 

[Shawn Gossman]

One of my college professors in a counterintelligence class told me to quit taking a political side if I want to truly be able to find facts in data to be used for intelligence.

Unbiased intelligence analysis makes the best analyst.

It took me a while but I'm there now and can see stuff that most people don't because they're so far whatever into their beliefs.

 

[Heatman]

My teacher told me years ago that it's better to fail than to cheat and pass because cheating to pass would never allow me to go back and learn to acquire the knowledge. But if you fail, go back to learn, then come back and pass with flying colours.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

My teacher told me years ago that it's better to fail than to cheat and pass because cheating to pass would never allow me to go back and learn to acquire the knowledge. But if you fail, go back to learn, then come back and pass with flying colours.

Great advice.

Failure really is but a learning opportunity. If someone quits because they have failed at something, then they didn't take failure for what it actually is. And they've probably missed out on an important opportunity as well.

 

[Tracy]

Those that do not push the limits will never excel.
My favorite science teacher in 7th grade.

 

[Heatman]

Great advice.

Failure really is but a learning opportunity. If someone quits because they have failed at something, then they didn't take failure for what it actually is. And they've probably missed out on an important opportunity as well.

Exactly! Taking a break to review why you failed at anything is going to show what went wrong or you didn't do right. If you work on correcting that in the next try, success is most likely guaranteed!

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Exactly! Taking a break to review why you failed at anything is going to show what went wrong or you didn't do right. If you work on correcting that in the next try, success is most likely guaranteed!

And sometimes trying again isn't the answer. Failure may teach you that. You might decide to pivot to something else, instead.

 

[Heatman]

And sometimes trying again isn't the answer. Failure may teach you that. You might decide to pivot to something else, instead.

Just trying again without doing all the necessary things needed to ensure success especially in correcting all the identified errors which caused the previous failure is not the way. If you really need to succeed in in that particular project, it's paramount to do so.

You might decide to move on totally to something new when you're no longer interested in that project.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Just trying again without doing all the necessary things needed to ensure success especially in correcting all the identified errors which caused the previous failure is not the way. If you really need to succeed in in that particular project, it's paramount to do so.

You might decide to move on totally to something new when you're no longer interested in that project.

I've definitely been there.

Pivoting many times.

Sometimes ultimately deciding to close shop and not do anything further but not because of the failure but because it made more sense to move on to things that are working.

 

[Heatman]

I've definitely been there.

Pivoting many times.

Sometimes ultimately deciding to close shop and not do anything further but not because of the failure but because it made more sense to move on to things that are working.

Exactly! You're not wrong at all. There's always a time when it's the right call to walk away because at that point, it would seem as total waste of time and resources because the passion is no longer there even with the project still meeting the goals it was set up for.

I can remember when my friend Devin decided to move on from his then project Posting Bay. It was still profitable running it but he felt like he was drowning in it. He sold it and moved on to another thing new.