What Can we Learn from the past happenings?

I remember reading the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz, in one of his comic strips Charlie Brown is at the beach building a beautiful castle. As he stands back to admire his work it is suddenly consumed by a huge wave. Looking at the smooth sand mound that had been his creation a moment before, he says,“There must be a lesson here, but I don’t know what it is.”

That’s the way many people approach adversity. They are so consumed by the events that they become bewildered and miss the whole learning experience. But there is always a way to learn from failures and mistakes.Poet Lord Byron was right when he stated,“Adversity is the first path to truth.”

Restaurateur Wolfgang Puck says,“I learned more from the one restaurant that didn’t work than from all the ones that were successes.” He incidentally owns five critically acclaimed restaurants in California and also opened restaurants in Chicago, Las Vegas and Tokyo.

It’s difficult to give general guidelines about how to learn from mistakes because every situation is different. But if you maintain a teachable attitude as you approach the process and try to learn anything you can about what you could do differently, you will improve yourself. When a person has the right mind-set, every obstacle introduces him to himself.