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Compar as two unlimited intro lines and lowest price 5D plans of top three carriers. Tax on fees extra, reduce speeds after 30 gigabytes of usage. Data thresholds may vary. From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Leslie McClurg. I'm in today for Mina Kim. Coming up on

forum, if you're not making mistakes, you're not trying. If you're not failing, you're failing to learn.

These adages might feel cliche, but mistakes, though often humiliating, really are necessary

for growth.

Your upbringing, education, and even your neurology can affect how you handle them.

We'll talk about what happens in our brains when we make mistakes, and we'll hear how

you react to blunders.

Do you tend to shut down?

Deflect blame?

Is it easy for you to regroup and figure out what went wrong?

What has a mistake taught you?

That's next after this news.

This is Forum. I'm Leslie McClurg. I'm in today for Mina Kim. I will never forget the worst mistake I ever made in my career. I was new as a producer on a show just like this, and I had booked a state senator for an interview for the host, and I booked the wrong guy, the wrong senator, and the host didn't realize until well into the interview.

Luckily, it wasn't live radio, and the host kind of brilliantly pivoted, and the senator actually

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