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Old 10-13-2009, 10:07 AM   #1181 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by seamaiden View Post
Too bad I'm such a slow learner.
In a former life, in the construction industry, we had 2 favourite sayings (and a corollary) to deal with mistakes:

1) The only people who don't make mistakes are those who do nothing.

2)If you keep making different mistakes, you're learning.
The corollary to this was: If you keep making the same mistake, you're stupid.

So... it's not the speed at which you learn that's important... it's the fact that you learn!
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