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When you look back and can honestly say that if you had it to do over again you wouldn't do anything differently, then it's bad luck.


Since when do you ever look back and say that you wouldn't do anything differently? That indicates you haven't learned anything, not that it was bad luck.

I usually go by "If I look back and can honestly say I wouldn't do anything differently given the information I had at the time, then it's bad luck." That doesn't mean that I made the right choices, or that I'd make the same choices in the future. But it means that I did the best I could with the information I had available to me, and didn't have any rational basis for choosing differently.


Yeah, that's what I meant. Given the information you had at the time...




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