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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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