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Bob Barnett, PE,'s avatar

I am not telling. I can show you mistakes on every thing I have ever built. But you would have to be extremely knowledgeable to see them. So if you never tell someone about your mistakes, they will never know. The best boat builder in the world, made a mistake on a boat the class was building at the Wooden Boat School. When he discovered it he simply said “I wish I hadn’t done that”. And he showed the class how to fix it. So even the best make mistakes, they are just better at correcting them.

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Marc S Smith's avatar

One time discussing good cabinet makers vs run of the mill cabinet makers with an elderly, yet exceptional, cabinet maker friend he said," You know the difference?" Confidently I said, good cabinet makers don't make mistakes. He said, "No, good cabinet makers know how to fix their mistakes.

Every time I mess up, I learn a new way to fix it. Lesson learned.

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