Making the Most of Your Mistakes
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This is Hidden Brain. I'm Shankar Vedanta. In two thousand nine, British businessman Philip Davison Sebri was celebrating his wife's fiftieth birthday in the Maldives when he got a phone call.
The caller asked for a business meeting, The next day at eight AM. Philip explained that that would be a little difficult. Seeing as he was four thousand five hundred miles away from work, on vacation.
What are you doing away at a time like this? The voice at the other end of the line shouted. Your company. is in liquidation. Philip thought it was a joke in poor taste.
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