I was talking with one of my mentors, and one sentence flew very intuitively out of me: “It’s as if I’m making so many mistakes with Rohkun that it is teaching me so much that I know the next move is going to be way better.”

It’s like experience is such a better teacher than actually just reading or watching a video about something. When you do something, you get so much contextual knowledge, and the outcome, such as failure or success, teaches you a lot more because you are attached to the outcome. Another point is that when you feel you can absorb so much knowledge out of that experience than if it were just written on some textbook page.

Thus trying is way better than learning in what I would call a conventionally academic way, where you pick up a book or video.

Because something about actually doing it makes you way more receptive and aware about what is happening, but also it boosts your ability to take it all in also.

This is why I think a mistake is never a mistake, but an anti-mistake, in context like this. Whatever you do wrong is going to empower you so much that the next steps you take will have a very low probability of you making a same error or errors which are similar in nature. A lot more ground is covered by a single mistake. It’s like it impacts one place but creates a huge crater which helps you avoid it.

Thus from now on, when it comes to business, I am just going to read about the basic skeleton of what is supposed to be, and then just get to work. I know that I can learn a lot more and do a lot more quality work by actually doing it and learning it out of my own experience and the contextual knowledge that arrives from it. I actually crave mistakes now because I know that one mistake makes it unlikely that 100 mistakes like it can take place in the future.

Instead of a book or a YouTube video, my own experience and the tacit knowledge or contextual knowledge that arrives from it will be my primary curriculum.