(08-01-2017, 11:03 AM)tg63 Wrote: I would tell myself to fail more. It's the best way to learn, at least for me.
The best way to learn is to observe and analyze others' mistakes. We rarely get to see that, unless it is as slick comedy.
The investor Bernard Baruch found that Sir Winston Churchill was a reliable investor -- as reliably-bad an investor as he would be great as a wartime statesman -- and ordinarily did the opposite.
...that said, almost everyone wants the shelter of a bureaucratic organization that has answered all the questions except how to stave off the debilitating effects of bureaucracy even with the limitations of opportunity that come with bureaucracy. To get away with some mistakes one must own his own business. Entrepreneurial types. except in sales, do not last long in most organizations.
This said, however comfortable life may seem for people who get steady income from bureaucracies, organizations in the bureaucratic stage of existence are already dying.
http://adizes.com/lifecycle/
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.