每日原则：打造允许犯错，但不容忍罔顾教训、一错再错的文化

犯错误会带来痛苦，但你不应因此让自己和他人选择逃避。痛苦说明某些事情出了问题，前车之鉴，后事之师。为了从自己和他人的错误中吸取教训，你必须坦诚、公开地承认错误，并努力避免再次犯错。在这个问题上，很多人会说：“不，谢谢，这不适合我，我宁愿不管这些事。”但这不符合你自己和你所在公司的最佳利益，并会阻碍你达成目标。对我而言，如果你回顾一年前的自己，而没有为自己所做的傻事感到震惊，就说明你还没有吸取足够多的教训。但仍然很少有人能够拥抱自己的错误。这种情况应该改变。

Everyone makes mistakes. The main difference is that successful people learn from them and unsuccessful people don’t. By creating an environment in which it is okay to safely make mistakes so that people can learn from them, you’ll see rapid progress and fewer significant mistakes.

Mistakes will cause you pain, but you shouldn’t try to shield your-self or others from it. Pain is a message that something is wrong and it’s an effective teacher that one shouldn’t do that wrong thing again. To deal with your own and others’ weaknesses well you must acknowledge them frankly and openly and work to find ways of pre-venting them from hurting you in the future. It’s at this point that many people say, “No thanks, this isn’t for me—I’d rather not have to deal with these things.” But this is against your and your organization’s best interests—and will keep you from achieving your goals. It seems to me that if you look back on yourself a year ago and aren’t shocked by how stupid you were, you haven’t learned much. Still, few people go out of their way to embrace their mistakes. It doesn’t have to be that way.