Learning from mistakes of the past: a method

[SoP]

Hello, Fastlaners

Yesterday I was really tired after a lot of work and a lot of things going through my mind the last week.

So I did something, which was very beneficial to me.

I wanted to share the idea with you guys. Maybe it will be valuable to you too.

What I sense is common for many entrepreneurs and freelancers is that they experience a lot of changes in their life. This means a lot of feelings, experiences, people, mistakes, memories that need to be interpreted.

But to interpret big experiences and changes demands a lot of time, energy and cognitive effort.

And, to me at least, it seems easiest to just go on with life/work and not give past memories too many considerations.

It is certainly the case for me. It is like I have a blurry understanding of some events in my life. So I have been confused about how to understand some things because I haven't had the time to sort them out properly.

Therefore I decided to get an overview of my whole life so far. So I wrote down the significant periods in my life. e.g. "Studying abroad for 1-year". And then added keywords that described that period. Then what mistakes did I make? What have I learned from these mistakes?

It showed the mistakes I've made. It showed patterns of behavior. But it also showed why I did these mistakes.

It became 14 significant periods in my life

I made a structure like this:

- Name of period
- Place
- Timespan
- Year
- Keywords
- Mistakes
- Lesson Learned

So here's an example of how I set it up:

Name of the period: Studying abroad
Place: Italy
Timespan: 1 year
Year: 2010
Keywords: freedom, new friends, learning, enjoy life
Mistakes: too impulsive, over-spending
Lesson learned: being too eager can be counterproductive.

It gave me confidence and understanding of myself to write these things down. And I planning to reconsult it once in a while and maybe specify things or change words, to get it as clear as possible.

Anyone has experience with these things or have thoughts about this method, I would love to hear your inputs!

Either way, I hope it's useful to you!

 

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[Startup Steve]

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[SoP]

Xi mowi gsun upi fidotoup vu vji piyv. Mogi ot tonqmz vji uavduni ug fidotoupt nefi aq vjot quopv. Ovt ul vu jewi e vinqusesz meqti ug kafhnipv, vjev ot janep. Xi gemm opvu e qevvisp ug quus fidotoupneloph xjip vji qevvisp ug huuf fidotoup neloph ot puv e jecov. Gudat up neloph vji citv piyv fidotoup zua dep cz iwemaevoph sotlt, ettanqvoupt, ottait, fiqipfipdoit. Vji liz, juxiwis, ot vu edv! Vjev ot jux xi qsufadi uavdunit. Xi dep emxezt efkatv gosi vu vji veshiv.

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