5 of 30: Share Mistakes

All right, so I want to tell you a little bit about a mistake I made. I was using a mandolin. And if you know what a mandolin is, it's something that you use to cut up vegetables really fine. And it's a. It has a really thin blade, and you move. Move the vegetable or whatever you're cutting over this thin blade. And I was cutting up potatoes, and they were rather large potatoes, and so I thought that I could just cut like half the potato down without using the guard. And then I'd put the guard on and finish the potato. And you can probably see where this is going. You. You start doing it. And I was getting really excited. And like I said before, I like cooking. And I got a little carried away, and I went a little too far. And sure enough, swipe, I hit and took off part of my thumb and a little bit of my. One of my fingers, but pretty big chunk of my thumb. And immediately I was like, that was so stupid. I am such an idiot. And it bled for a long time. And I told my kids and just kept saying what an idiot I was. Well, I went online to just see what other people did about this, and I found a few other stories of people that had done something similar and how they rectified it. I mean, some people just said, I threw that thing away. I never want to use it again. Which it's. It's a pretty dangerous thing if you don't use it right, and you're an idiot like me. But other people had said, well, I started using a cut glove, and of course I always use the guard. And I learned through that that it is really valuable to just share your mistakes. And I shared my mistake with other people. It was a very stupid, embarrassing mistake to. But I always tell people always wear a cut glove when using a mandolin. And I use that lesson to remind myself that it is always okay to share about my mistakes, even though they might be stupid and idiotic and embarrassing, because somebody else might learn from it and not repeat that mistake. So what mistakes might you want to share about and hopefully help somebody else learn something to think about? Thanks. Talk to you soon.