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PSI President

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Mar 29, 2007, 4:23:46 PM3/29/07
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Okay, just to test out the "discussion" aspect of this new site, I'm
posting a question that I'm inviting everyone to respond to.

Please feel free to post your questions too!

Is there a difference between learning from you failures and learning
from your successes?
Do you learn the same thing from both, or something different?

Kathy Rooney

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Apr 8, 2007, 11:22:12 AM4/8/07
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THIS is a great idea!!! Thanks for doing this Rick and Cathy.

That's a rather estoteric beginning, Rick. Learning from failure is
interesting in hind sight...would I do it all over again? YES. (BTW, I
wish this thing had a spell check.)

Ilene Lederer3

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Apr 8, 2007, 1:31:45 PM4/8/07
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Since we're into 'esoteric', which is a great place to begin, here are
a few thoughts for the mix:

Our successes and our failures both have much to teach us, though
given a choice, who, except a masochist, would opt for continual
failure? Competitive society, by its very nature presents success as
the single desirable goal of our efforts and will always scorn what it
considers to be failure, thereby rendering that condition all the more
painful. Maybe we need to work more on re-branding failure as a mere
rung in the ladder to success? Any thoughts on an advert campaign for
this? While you're thinking, check out this NYT piece today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/theater/08ishe.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1176053293-x9FPQBYdRnn3osHccKnVJQ

Today's bottom line? Successes and failures are two sides of the same
coin; we couldn't appreciate one without the other.

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