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introducing me to their colleagues and I started making connections events in a way I never had before. 
    Always eating left handed changes everything. 

Why Mistakes Are Overrated
    If there were a step by step guide on how to write a book about being successful, one of the requirements would probably be to have at least a chapter on the power of making mistakes.  Successful people love to romanticize mistakes and the lessons they offer about life. 
    This isn’t a book about making mistakes.  In fact, you could describe it as a book about AVOIDING mistakes.
    But wait a minute – isn’t making mistakes an important part of learning?  The most successful people in the world often say so.  In fact, if you read a recap from some of the most memorable commencement speeches ever delivered to graduating seniors from high school or college every year, you’ll see four pieces of advice that are shared over and over again:
     
Take risks
Never give up
Do what you love
Make mistakes
    Despite their overuse, what I like about the first three pieces of advice is that they are very positive. They encourage you to dream bigger.  But encouraging someone to make mistakes seems like the opposite kind of advice.  It’s like admitting failure.  What kind of person wants to make mistakes? 

All Mistakes Aren’t Created Equal
    The thing about mistakes is … we all tend remember the big ones we make in our lives and where they lead us. Those are the ones we learn life’s biggest lesson from, and the ones that we based our advice on.  The truth is, no one writes a book about those stupid microscopic tiny mistakes we make that impact our lives every day.  Those are the ones we scratch our heads after and wonder how we could have been so stupid.
    There are mistakes that change our lives, and then there are mistakes we wish we never made.
    The interesting thing about those mistakes we regret is that most of us quickly find ways to train ourselves out of making them by solving micro-problems with micro-solutions.  Not only do we all do this every day, but we rely on our ability to get better and better at doing it to deal with the challenges of our daily lives.

The Cut And Paste Principle
    One of the earliest jobs in my career was to be a project manager.  My responsibility was to help lead a team of designers and programmers to build large websites.  Each project would last for about 3 or 4 months, after which I would move onto a new project. 
    In that job, I quickly learned there are two words that project managers need to use all the time: deadlines and dependencies.  Everyone knows about deadlines, but dependencies are actually what controlled your timeline.  Every task on a project usually had other tasks which had to be completed first.  You couldn’t build a homepage, for example, until the design was done and approved.  If the design was delayed, the homepage would be delayed.  That was a dependency. 
    Now imagine that you had a project with 500 different tasks, each with dependencies to other tasks.  It got pretty complicated quickly.  And because projects would finish in a few months, the process of creating this complex roadmap happened over and over again.   Worried about the amount of work involved in doing this, I decided to ask one of the Senior Project Managers for some tips. 
    That’s where the “cut and paste principle” came in.  No project manager created an entirely new timeline for every project, she told me.  Instead, you would start with one of your previous timelines – and then add or subtract tasks to customize it for your latest project.  The template, though, was already there. 

How To Read This Book
    My point in sharing that little story about deadlines and dependencies is that we all face these types of challenges in our careers and personal lives all the time.  Situations that happen over and over again, which will often require us to come up with our own methods of cutting