The Time Spent Condemning Other People’s Mistakes Is the Time When You Don’t Learn From Your Own
It’s easy to dwell on other people’s mistakes. From the outside, you can see how they could have done something differently. It’s so obvious! Instead of wasting this energy on choices you have no control over, explore your own.
While this attitude is often shown as a moral argument (glass houses and all), the Entrepreneur business blog argues that it is also a practical argument. You cannot control other people’s choices and, of course , you cannot control someone else’s past. Learning from the mistakes of others is fine, but the longer you spend analyzing how someone could do something better, the more time you waste that could be used more productively.
Judgment can not only kill your career, but it can drastically reduce your ability to grow and move forward. Everyone has things they regret; it is a virtual confidence in our life. Spending time learning from mistakes is productive, but judging yourself or others for mistakes is a drain on valuable energy that is better spent elsewhere.
Of course, we all know why we are actually doing this. It can feel like catharsis to be clear about the reasons someone screwed up. “You see, if they had listened to my advice retroactively, they would not have found themselves in this mess.” The problem is, even if you’re right, you’re still wasting time talking instead of channeling your energies into something more productive.
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