i-TFTD #45

1. We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2. If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
-Anon

3. Comfort -- comes as guest, lingers to become host and stays to enslave us.
-Swami Chinmayananda

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The first one is especially evident during performance appraisal.

Sometimes people say, "I am human, I make mistakes." The problem is if one uses it as an acceptable response and fails to derive some lesson from the experience.

Most of the time we are striving to earn and enjoy comfort but progress and growth always lie beyond the comfort zone. Maybe we should be like the train, speeding across plains and over bridges, resting and recuperating periodically at stations. A train should not permanently be at the station.