When my wife and I first moved to Long Island nearly five years ago to take over a family house we were a bit quick to try and make the turn-of-the-century home into our own. While we didn’t exactly tear through the house, knocking down walls and ripping off wallpaper (we actually waited a few weeks to do that), we targeted the landscaping first.
The perimeter of the house was overgrown with shrubs and tall flowering bushes, and since we wanted a cleaner look to the outside I started ripping them …

I’ve often found that some of the most enlightening moments come right after you throw your hands up in the air and embrace that you have absolutely no clue. It’s when you’ve emptied yourself of all of those preconceptions that spotting something true is almost effortless, instinctual even.
Last night I found this presentation with Mike Rowe, host of Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs, and the narrator of countless others, explaining that very thing. He calls it, “getting it wrong.”
He makes a few great points that had me thinking about a few …