Sentences with phrase «think about our mistakes»

Sharing your lessons will also show your employees how to think about mistakes and move forward.

AV's plan was to teach these young kids the process he went through... grinding and thinking about mistakes as you sat in the doghouse anytime you tried to be creative.

Tell tale signs that an athlete is thinking about mistakes are a slowed work - rate, weak body language, and looking down.

You might be doing the dishes and thinking about some mistake you made when you were in your 20s.

Think about the mistakes you might have committed.

Go sit down and think about the mistake you made with king kong.

Well, students don't think about their mistakes rationally — they think about them emotionally.

She lay in bed thinking about a mistake she made, the pile of work on her desk, and the infinite number of things that could go wrong.

One way to think about a mistake is as an error in judgment that may cause or contribute to a conflict.

Not exact matches

You wrote the following in a blog post: «When I joined First Round, I gave a lot of thought to the type of VC I want to be, and I decided to be one that wouldn't hedge talking about mistakes and lessons hard won.»

Some employers don't think about ways to facilitate this relationship — that's a mistake.

Inc. editor - at - large Kimberly Weisul spoke with author and Duarte Design CEO Nancy Duarte about presentation mistakes, investor pitches, and why speakers should think of themselves as Yoda.

They stimulated you to think about new ways of doing things, allowed you to question assumptions, and never criticized you for making mistakes.

«Mistakes will be made... some people will not know what they're talking about, but I think it is so much better than where things were not very long ago.

He's written at length about how important he thinks it is not to protect kids from their mistakes — to let them fail.

One question is negatively worded, meaning it asks the candidate to think about a time when they made a mistake and how they dealt with it.

It was the iPod that Steve Jobs was talking about in 2003 when he uttered the line that has become one of his most defining, and frequently quoted, aphorisms: «Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,» he told the New York Times.

Step back, set aside the mistake, and think about the whole employee.

The final deadly mistake is not following common design principles, which is something that Steve Krug talks about in his book Don't Make Me Think.

If you're serious about building a social media network, or really any platform driven by content, put an emphasis on community; don't make the mistake of thinking that any engagement is good engagement.

If you think about setting up your account and payment method in a new app, it now takes seconds instead of minutes - with little chance for mistakes.

Think differently about the mistakes you make.

A great way of avoiding this mistake is to think about the business» principles.

«We think the biggest mistake that was made was under the Obama administration by ever entering the deal that you referenced in the first place,» Sanders said when asked about the statement's wording.

Avoid Generic Requests One of the biggest mistakes you can make on LinkedIn is to send a request to connect with a former colleague or business partner but without thinking about personalization.

Telling quote: «I think what we made the mistake of doing early on was taking every opportunity alone to talk about the business, at dinner, driving the car, you know at home brushing your teeth, as you're getting into bed, as you're waking up, and I think we made a conscious effort to not do that because I think it was just, you know, it would burn us out,» Kate told CNN in 2002.

This is standard marine thinking; enlisted men and women and officers alike are expected to express concern about questionable decisions and orders, and one of the biggest mistakes an officer can make is to ignore or squelch such questioning.

One of the recurrent questions about the meltdown was how such a large group of trained professionals could take so many risks, make so many stupid mistakes and still think they were being smart.

If you're thinking about writing a business plan, consider this list of common mistakes people make and expert advice for steering clear of them.

In that case, the academics could be making the all - too - common mistake of «proving» an adage by using the same evidence that was used to bring about that line of thinking.

Her best admissions advice: With regard to selling yourself to an admissions team: «I think the biggest mistake people make is that they write about why they're interested in the degree as opposed to what they're bringing to the table.»

They made a huge mistake with the auto - upgrade without permission (my kids are now seeing ads that they hadn't been exposed to before; THINK ABOUT THESE THINGS ahead of time Mozilla!).

Did they ever reach a point of thinking «wow, I made some mistakes» or «yeah, I really should have done something about it sooner?»

When asked how Facebook could address the morale problem, Mosseri told me «it starts with owning our mistakes and being very clear about what we're doing now» and noted that «it took a while to get into this place and I think it'll take a while to work our way out... Trust is lost quickly, and takes a long time to rebuild.»

I think it starts with owning our mistakes and being very clear about what we're doing now.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

HASTINGS: Well, the mistakes in Pure was that every time we had a significant error — sales call didn't go well, bug in the code — we tried to think about it in terms of, what process could we put in place to ensure that this doesn't happen again, and thereby improving the company?

Mistakes startups always make is thinking about your initial sale as your total sales you make to a customer.

«When I think about the history of my mistakes (and it's a long history), those mistakes have generally been when the investment was in a business that was ostensibly very cheap, but where you had secular headwinds, and those headwinds led to the undoing of the thesis.

It is a mistake to think that one limits one's risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.

, but I think it's a mistake for risk averse or diversified investors to completely give up on high quality bonds because they're worried about poor returns from low yields.

Web content guru Gerry McGovern, author of «Killer Content» — one of the best books on writing copy for the web — says that one of the biggest mistakes companies make in regards to their website content is thinking that customers care one little bit about the company.

I think most entrepreneurs, rather than making a mistake in picking a niche, make a mistake in «playing at business» — getting business cards, spending tons of time on optimizing their website, etc — before they need to worry about any of that.

Many of the dumb mistakes of omission I've made have come from caring too much about exactly what a business looks like now (what it's reporting in earnings, showing in book value, etc.) rather than what I think it'll roughly look like in 5 years.

The reason I say that was my worst mistake of omission is because the only reason I passed on that stock is because I had read too many value investing books, thought too much about the right multiples for a stock, wrote about value investing, talked with other value investors, etc..

A great leader thinks about the company's overall culture and — while understanding that people are flawed and mistakes will be made — responds to bad behaviour with the appropriate level of discipline.

«One way to improve investment results — which we try hard to apply at Oaktree — is to think about what «today's mistake» might be and try to avoid it» Howard Marks

If you and your husband definitely think that they are making a huge mistake in marrying each other, consider talking to them about it.

Thinking that the gods and magic it tells about is somehow real, is the second mistake.

Remember, it's got about 2000 years of history on its side and has endured more intelligent criticism from 17th and 18th Enlightenment thinkers than the dribble you mistaken for intelligent thought.