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A personal reflection on how to handle workplace mistakes professionally. Starting from a confession about lying to a colleague as an intern, the post outlines a practical framework: control your emotional reaction by waiting before acting, communicate the problem to your manager before you have a fix, and accept that mistakes have real career consequences. It pushes back on the popular notion that incidents are never an individual's fault, arguing that managers judge on results and that the optimal number of mistakes at work is not zero — making none likely means you're taking too few risks.

On screwing up