#TrainingTuesday

The whole purpose of training is the space and time to learn and make mistakes. Mistakes are important because they help us learn. We have to be allowed to make mistakes and we have to allow others to make them.

Training isn't just for things like jobs or sports. Life takes training. And we have to allow for mistakes to be made.

Here's a couple of articles that talk about the importance of mistakes being made in training:

The Best Way to Train Employees Is to Let Them Make Mistakes

9 Crucial Life Skills to Teach Your Child

12 Basic Life Skills Every Kid Should Know by High School

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Call it a Day

The literal use of this phrase hails from 1838 when the phrase originally was "call it half a day" to mean leaving work early. (source) The modern use of the phrase is to indicate ending something due to false sense of accomplishment.

More bang for your buck

This phrase was used a lot in 1953 but an earlier citation puts it at 1940 in a Metals and Plastics Publications advertisement. Read about it here . The phrase means you get more for your money.

Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

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