We all make mistakes at some point in our lives, but hopefully we can learn from them, put it down to experience and remember not to do it again. The Resource Alliance's interim chief executive Lyndall Stein recounts some of her blips and how she’s dealt with them.

The strange thing about mistakes is that you can always find new ones to make. I keep thinking that at my advanced age (don’t spread it around, but I will be hitting the big 60 this summer) that I should have used up my full lifetime allocation of actual and potential mistakes and learnt from them, but oh no, there is always another one just waiting round the corner. But if you spent your life frightened by the next mistake you might make - you would just stay at home, and maybe just stay in bed and maybe just stay asle.

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