Mistakes, what a teacher!

Or: I didn’t learn in school the vast majority of what I know about my profession

Danielle LaPorte doesn’t need any introduction. I was struck by a recent post, a list of mistakes that would be better to avoid but – if committed – are a godsend because they teach a lot about our work and especially about ourselves.

I found myself in many of them, especially in number 3 (Got a workspace too soon), because in those lines I seemed to trace the full logistics history of Tesi & testi.

My first office was a room of about 15 square meters and with the bathroom in the courtyard (it was 1995 - in 1940 I was not yet born): there, anyway, I laid the foundation for the future, I had insights that I like to call brilliant and I experienced intense emotions about my little creature of those days. (Such as the joy of owning a real fax.)

Then in 1997 I understood – rather, I thought I understood – that an entrepreneur must have, among other things, a lot of space for his company and a corner office for himself. The new office was elegant, very spacious, very beautiful to behold and comfortable: but in fact I spent entire years working to pay for it.

When we moved things have improved, but they really went into place only 14 years later (I'm slow to get the rhythm in everything I do, it's one of my 800 faults) when the circle was closed and I returned to the apartment that was once of the mother superior. Small spaces, life in the province, huge satisfactions, and the bottom line can only benefit.

Mistakes, a manna from heaven. Thank you Danielle.