Nobody’s perfect. We’re expected to do our best and when we screw up, admit it, learn from it, and move on. Not carry it around like a weight on your back. If you can’t, it’ll get in the way of doing your best the next time. When planning the opening of Treasure Island, I searched for a system to electronically store applications so we wouldn’t need to file them. The theory being that hiring managers could search for and retrieve them online. Unfortunately, the computer industry hadn’t perfected high volume scanning, character recognition, or large file sharing. Titans in the nascent computer industry claimed they could but our beta test proved they couldn’t. We were just as frustrated as when opening the Mirage. Worse, I was embarrassed – I’d promised a solution, the company backed me, and the result was almost worse than doing nothing. That hurt. I had to admit failure, swallow my pride, apologize to others, forgive myself, and start over. And during the next 4 years, I had to go back to basics, study and prove everything I learned, work doubly hard to win approvals, and try again. While it was difficult, I realized how much worse it could be if I didn’t forgive myself. Because I could then start over with a clean slate. Don’t be too proud to take your medicine and start over today.
Publilius Syrus (85–43): Latin writer, best known for his proverbs, adages, aphorisms, or maxims.
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