Jim Kwik breaks down the OLD framework for handling mistakes: Own it, Learn from it, Don't repeat it. He uses examples from relationships, diet, and sleep to show how repeating the same errors is the definition of insanity.
Well, if you make a mistake, you make it OLD, O-L-D, and everything's an acronym. O is you own it. We take responsibility for it because that allows us to be able to make it better. The L is you learn from it, and that's why we make mistakes, right? They're stepping stones to make us a better person if we learn from it, that there's maybe— there's no failure, maybe there's feedback. But then the D is really where it lands. The D is don't repeat it. Because so many people could learn in the moment, but then they repeat it. They repeat that mistake in their relationships or in their dating life. They repeat it. They forget what that junk food made them feel like, you know, afterwards, or staying up late at night. So don't repeat it because, you know, insanity— doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. Everyone right now can imagine a time where they felt like they couldn't survive. Yeah. And the truth is, if they're listening to this, they did.
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