Everyone makes mistakes, sometimes they’re painful. So make them count.

** Image credit to Simon Wardley**

We all make mistakes. Despite good intentions, despite researching, despite feeling a level of confidence in our own grasp of a situation, familiarity with a subject, we all continue to make mistakes, to offend and hurt (usually unintentionally) through ignorance, stubbornness, or being generally out-of-touch.

I’ve made . . . a lot of mistakes. All you have to do is scroll through this blog and you’ll find a plethora of very public, very ignorant, very well...