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The Importance of Saying "Oops" (overcomingbias.com)
10 points by jey on Aug 5, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Great article. A good % of the things I regret are situations where I wasted time/energy defending something I knew to be wrong, simply to hide the fact that I was wrong.


Not all progress must come from mistakes. He seems to equate the two. Big changes do not necessarily come from fixing big mistakes. They can come from recognizing new opportunities as well.


indeed. though opportunities often come from mistakes or negligence of others.




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