Making mistakes

The jumping of horses was not great yesterday. I had my worst result in a long time.

Two things came to mind as I cried over my split milk. The first is if you are going to make mistakes then learn something in the process - thankfully I did that yesterday. Secondly, people traditionally say that only a fool makes the same mistake twice. In general I would agree, although without going into oodles of technical detail, what yesterday taught me was that you can learn different things from your mistakes depending on your level of experience. I am a more experienced rider than I was a year ago. As such the analysis of my mistakes yesterday is more in depth than any understanding of the same mistake I would have had 12 months ago. Translated into work terms....a Senior Executive's analysis of why we might have won or lost a RFP bid is probably more to the point that the junior consultant in the bid team, or quite simply the reason why it is managers or consultants who are asked to impact assess change requests.

I suspect this was totally obvious to everyone else, but reality only really bit yesterday. Going back for more today.....let's hope I don't make the same mistake because I don't think I've gathered much more experience since yesterday, especially after a couple of pints of Guinness last night.