What has been your biggest mistake?
jnovek: Talking about regrets and mistakes s a funny thing.  There is an implied hypothetical there -- like, "If I had made a different choice, I would be a in a better place."Take, for example, my (admittedly foolish) decision to drop out of the University after a year and go to community college part-time for a year.  It should have been a bust, but I ended up meeting my wife (who was working on her generals) there.  I met another great friend on my second run at the University.  Now my wife and this friend are my co-founders for my startup... both of whom I possibly would've never known if I hadn't gone to the community college.Now, I'm not saying that there is no such thing as bad choices, or that I have no regrets about things I've done -- I think it's natural for us to regret things that we perceive as mistakes.  But I'm pretty happy right now in spite of any problems that I might have, and as far as choices contribute to our happiness, mine have worked out well.  It's hard for me to describe choices that have made me happy as "mistakes".