Most people learn over time, but often learning comes too late to be fully
useful. There are certainly many things that I know now that would have been
extremely useful to me earlier in my life; things that could have saved me
from many of the mistakes and hurts I suffered over the years—and most of
those that I inflicted on others too.
I don’t buy the romantic notion that my life has been somehow richer or
more interesting because of all the times I screwed up; nor that the
mistakes were “put”
