Be open to both good and bad experiences. Good judgement can come from bad experiences; good experiences can come from bad judgement.

The key in all of this is to trust chance, and to steer it in such a way that you’re always learning from it. These are the kind of humble choices — each of them as bold as bungee jumping — that lead not only to new discoveries to to an uncommon feeling of hard-won joy.

— Rolf Potts, Vagabonding