“Needless to say, we will never do that again,” Charlotte announced.

“Indeed? How so?” I asked.

“I should have seen it coming,” she replied. “We had a similar situation last year that turned out great, though we all attributed it to blind dumb luck. This year, blind dumb luck turned out to be blind, dumb, BAD luck.”

I nodded. “They say experience is the best teacher. Is that not true?”

“Absolutely true. Like I said, we will never do that again.”

I chuckled. “Experience may be the best teacher, but it’s not experience that gets the credit. It’s the way you interpret the experience. And, what you learn, is no better than your interpretation. So, when you do your post mortem debrief, you have to look at the circumstances, the observable events, AND you have to look at your interpretations. That’s where the thinking kicks in.”