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Early in my career, I made an embarrassing mistake.
I'm not proud of it. In fact, I still shudder when I think of my arrogance and cluelessness. But, like most mistakes and wrong turns, it taught me lessons that have helped ever since.
It happened more than 30 years ago, when I was in my mid-20s. As part of my work-advice series, I'll tell you about it.