Index4INDEX Card 276: African Proverb 1

You always learn a lot more when you lose than when you win.

-- African Proverb

For more about African Proverb, keep reading....

About the Quote

When we do things right, it's because those things have become second nature to us. We already know how to do them. If we do them the same way and they always get done right, we don't learn anything.

On the other hand, when we do things wrong we have to stop and take time to figure out why things didn't work out for us. During this analysis, we consider everything we did, eveything which had to be done before we began, and any other factor which could affect our ability to do things correctly (or to win).

When we do things wrong (especially when we lose in a competition), we learn about everything we need to do to succeed, and part of that learning is to examine failure. Once we figure out why we failed, then we can adjust and try again. We we learned our lessons properly, we wend up successing. Most importantly, the lessons stay with us for the rest of our lives.

Some Information about Africa (Home of African Proverb)

• Africa contains 48 nations on its mainland plus 6 island nations
• According to the United Nations geoscheme (based on political maps showing borders and boundaries separating nations), there are five main regions:
  • North Africa -- Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, and Western Sahara;
  • Eastern Africa -- British Indian Ocean Territory, Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, French Southern Territories, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Réunion, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe;
  • Middle Africa -- Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa), Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Sao Tome and Principe;
  • Southern Africa -- Botswana, Eswatini (Swaziland), Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa; and
  • Western Africa -- Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde (Cape Verde), Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
• Including the Sahrawi Republic (Western Sahara, territory claimed by Morocco and near the Canary Islands), there are 55 African countries. These 55 countries are members of The African Union.

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