According to Stanley, most people don't learn from bad decisions because they're convinced their bad decisions were somebody else's fault. One more time… According to Stanley, most people don't learn from bad decisions because they're convinced their bad decisions were somebody else's fault. “Our culture tells us that the worst thing we can do is to feel bad about ourselves. That is not true,” he emphasized. “The worst thing we can do is not feel bad about ourselves about something that's bad about ourselves.” “Shame has its place and shame has its role, and if I'm not willing to face where I actually am, I will never ever get to where I want to be,” he added. “So as long as I'm kidding myself, as long as I'm selling myself, as long as I'm fooling myself, as long as I'm refusing to look in the mirror and make excuses, there's just no way to make progress, whether it's financially, professionally, academically, relationally and whatever it might be.” He pointed out that humans are “really good” at “selling ourselves on a really bad idea” and stressed the importance of not rushing into making decisions. “We don't want to wait,” he argued. “We know that if we wait, we're going to talk ourselves out of it and so we become our own worst enemies. #Humility #Gratitude #WeWereMadeToGlorifyHim https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn9zgIJOssv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=