Focusing only on your mistakes makes you miss your accomplishments


Self-compassion leads to greater compassion toward others. — 123rf.com

I recently came across an interesting lesson attributed to Albert Einstein on how much weight we place on mistakes.

The story goes that the legendary physicist wrote the nine times table on a chalkboard, with all the arithmetic correct except for the last entry where he’d written “9x10=91”.

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