A Year of Reflection: Edition 11

We learn maturity by getting information, applying it poorly, making mistakes, learning from our mistakes, and doing better the next time.

Life is learning. Period. Overcoming ignorance is the whole point of the journey. You’re not supposed to know at the beginning. The whole point of venturing into uncertainty is to bring light to the darkness of our ignorance. I heard a great saying once: Life is like school, with one key difference—in school you get the lesson, and then you take th

“the spirit of the fool.” He argued that when you start learning anything new it will make you “feel clumsy, that you’ll take literal or figurative pratfalls. There’s no way around it.”⁠

You learn by doing—by trying to speak, making mistakes, and learning from them so the next time you make fewer mistakes.