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not that you make mistakes, but how you              that this work ethic is the only way I can truly
          recover from your mistakes. Do you stay              experience growth in any area of my life. I have

          down in the dirt and wallow in self-pity? Or         used it to grow in my Toastmasters journey. I
          do you get up, brush yourself off, and try           have used it to grow as a music director and
          again? No person can achieve true success            musician. I have used it to grow in my career
          in life without cultivating the latter attitude.     as a software engineer. By following the three

          You made a mistake? Good! What can you               steps I define above, take charge of your growth,
          learn from it? Examine what you did that             seek challenges, and learn from your mistakes,
          failed. Evaluate the mistakes you made. Do           you can also grow as a person, Toastmaster,
          again what you did that failed, but this time        and professional.

          don’t repeat the mistake you made before.
          Thomas Edison is said to have failed a                  Every great cause is born
          thousand times before finally producing a
          light bulb that worked. When asked about                from repeated failures

          this, he said, “I didn’t fail a thousand times.
          The light bulb was an invention with a                     and from imperfect
          thousand steps.”
                                                                          achievements.


          I can’t guarantee that this Toastmasters
                                                                                         ~ Maria Montessori
      Work Ethic will make you successful with every
      employer. Some simply won’t value it and what
      it brings to their workplace. But I have found




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