Donald Miller argues that subconscious delusions of greatness block real improvement. You have to crush your inflated dreams, separate ego from ability, and honestly inventory your skills to find gaps. Mistakes teach more than successes ever will.
We all have friends who have delusional greatness in their subconscious, and because of that, they never actually get better. It was very important for me to have my dreams crushed, to detach my ego from my ability, so that I could objectively say, you're not good at this. You're not good at this. I think it's very important for every person, if they want to accomplish something great in a career, to have a season where they actually take a careful inventory of what their actual abilities are. But, gosh, mistakes are more important than successes, I think, in shaping who you are. That's the big lesson that you want to teach everybody is failure is your biggest teacher. It's your biggest ally. It forges you. Forgive yourself and move on.
