Don’t waste time beating yourself up for ending up in the wrong room. You weren’t lost—you were just learning. As Samuel Beckett put it: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
The wrong room isn’t failure—it’s feedback. Every misstep sharpens your vision for the right door. The key? Don’t stand there sulking. Walk out. Try again. Because the right door doesn’t just open to another room—it opens to the right boardroom, the right opportunity, the next level.
Greatness isn’t found by always being right—it’s earned by refusing to stay stuck when you’re wrong. Now, go open that door.
— Anders K.S. Ahl