And not being willing to admit your mistakes and assess your weaknesses means that you continuously make the same mistakes.

Of course I’m not saying in my original anecdote that people getting killed from a natural disaster was preventable.

In the appropriate threads, I have posted right here what I learned from my many mistakes - marrying the wrong person (since remarried), staying at my second job too long and becoming an “expert beginner” (I’ve done decently for myself since then), failed in real estate around 2008 (since recovered), etc.

You can look at some of my “favorited comments”.

This isn’t bitterness. At 50, I am where I want to be. But if you had asked the 35 year old me - divorced, negative net worth, shitty job with out of date skillset, etc. I wouldn’t have put on a happy face and say I’m not a failure.