
878: Saying No Masterfully to Reclaim your Life with Vanessa Patrick
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
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The Importance of Learning From Our Mistakes
"I talk about in the book the importance of learning from our mistakes," she says. "When we say yes, when we want to say no, we sometimes have to pause and actually let ourselves feel bad about that." We naturally as human beings have this coping mechanism, something called the psychological immune system, which jumps in as soon as we feel bad or try to repair the situation. And that is why we don't learn very well from bad situations.
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