Borrowing Experience

One of the biggest advantages you can have is access to someone with more experience than you.

Whenever you're about to make a decision that could affect a relationship, your reputation, or your position, it's worth getting a second opinion from someone who has already been in similar situations.

Not because they're always right.

Not because you are definitely wrong. 

But because experience allows people to see consequences that you simply can't see yet.

You'll still make mistakes. That's inevitable.

The goal isn't to avoid every mistake.

Because then you'll get nowhere. 

The goal is to avoid the unnecessary ones.

So you can reduce the time wasted on fixing problems that could be avoided.

It's a delicate balance between creating opportunities through ambition and knowing when to borrow someone else's experience before making a move.