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Key Takeaways Failure accelerates learning, sharpening instincts faster than success ever can.
Confidence comes from surviving hard moments, not studying theoretical ones.
I wasn’t a perfect student.
Not because I wasn’t curious. I learned differently. Sitting still, memorizing answers and waiting to be graded never made much sense to me. Real life did.
That’s where I actually learned how things work.
Real life doesn’t hand you the answers. It hands you situations. People. Pressure. Consequences. You don’t get a syllabus. You get incomplete information and a deadline. You make a call, live with it, and adjust. Sometimes you get it right. Sometimes you don’t. Either way, the lesson sticks.
That’s why experience became my real education.
School teaches answers. Experience teaches judgment.
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