Desiring Machine

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Advice so simple but often unheeded by so many I have known. To this I would only add that one must embrace one’s own mistakes because they are that which define you. Accept the wisdom of others as a guide but also embrace the wisdom that comes from your own mistakes. This leaves time to make grand and novel mistakes of one’s own. An opportunity to set out on the arduous path towards that which is truly undiscovered.