Phetasy News - The Cost of Learning A Lesson
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Greetings from the Phetaverse!
We recently had one of those days here at Phetasy, Inc. where it felt like everything and anything that could go wrong—went wrong. It started early and the hits just kept on coming. We have a heck of a winter storm headed our way this weekend, so in order to get ahead of the rain, we decided to shoot Dumpster Fire on Thursday. No sooner had my fancy Italian make-up artist, Luna, put the final touches on my face when the rain started.
While we were waiting for the rain to clear, our guest for Walk-Ins Welcome this week asked that we take the show down for reasons after the show had already gone live. It’s a long story—but the last thing I want is for anyone to have something out there than they aren’t comfortable with—so we pulled the show. We had to scramble to get another one edited and up. The thing that bothered me the most (aside from the fact that it’s the first time in four years we didn’t have a show drop on Thursday) was that the time spent interviewing and editing the podcast was a complete waste—for me, for Maggie, for our editors at our network, Podcast One.
At a certain point Maggie and I looked at each other, rain pouring outside, trying to figure out what to do about the podcast and Maggie said, “We’ve learned like five lessons from this.” And we just started laughing. It wasn’t a waste at all.
Maggie’s words reminded me of something I took from my conversation with the guest who will be on Walk-Ins Welcome this week, Fred Mwangaguhunga. He talks about how in business you will inevitably make mistakes. Some of them will cost you time, some money, but whatever it is, it’s the cost of learning the lesson—the price you pay for knowledge. “You won’t make that mistake again,” he said of the lessons you learn the hard way.
When I first started Phetasy back in 2005, I read a lot of business books, one of them was Winning by legendary American boss, Jack Welch. He said something along the lines of “if you don’t have problems, you aren’t doing business” and I think about how that applies to work on days that are dumpster fires—but also life. Hiccups, crisis, and problems are all part of work and life. It’s not whether or not they will happen, but how we face them and what we learn from them that matters.
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Funny that you would refer to Jack Welch in the same piece where you talk about learning hard lessons. In 1963 he somehow blew up one of GE's labs. The biggest question I had when I read Jack Welch's biography was "How did he literally burn down one of his company's buildings and somehow parley that into near immediate promotion?!"
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