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A favorite friend of mine is fond of saying, “I can’t taste the lemon pie for you.”

There’s a lot of wisdom in this tiny kernel of truth.

What she’s saying is that no one can play full out in life unless she experiences all of it for herself. And with making that leap comes making mistakes. Lots of them. Whether we are willing to embrace them or not!

The value of mistakes lies in their ability to provide us with important—often profound—teaching with a bonus. It can be immediate.

Mistakes give us options. For instance, we can learn from the mistakes of others, or from our own. (I have found both to be useful in different circumstances and for different reasons.)

The process can be easy…I just can’t promise you it’s completely pain free…but then again, only a robot is completely pain free.

Here are some ways to make good use of life’s precious mistakes.

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