The Truth About Better Decision-Making (Collection), 2/e
by Robert E. Gunther, William S. Kane, Leigh Thompson, Martha I. Finney
Truth 50. Don't look back
You can live life in only one direction. Once you make a decision, look back only long enough to learn from it. Then look forward, because there will be another decision right around the corner. If you're driving using the rear-view mirror, you will not see what is coming at you on the road ahead.
You will be tempted to agonize about the decisions gone wrong or to gloat over the ones gone right. The first impulse will blind you with regret. The second will blind you with arrogance. Neither form of blindness will improve your decisions going forward. You need to move ahead with both eyes open.
Learn to forgive and be forgiven. One of the hardest and most important challenges is found in the deceptively simple words of ...
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