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(It’s Great To) Suck at Something
• There should be at least one thing in your life you enjoy despite being no good at it. This is your play time, which will keep you young. Never apologize for it.
101 Additional Advices
While failure may build character and tenacity, it’s not as good at building skills.
Doug Lemov, Erica Woolway, Katie Yezzi • Practice Perfect
We need to allow ourselves the fluidity and grace to change the way we view ourselves, to allow for failure and evolution. To move from “I’m a perfect student,” to “I’m someone who tries their best in their studies.”
Livi Redden • The Sooner You Know, The Better: Dear Teens and Twentysomethings, It's Time to Fully Face Your Fears About the Future & Embrace Who You Are
“in the process of trying to attain a few moments of bliss,” Rinaldi explains, “I experience something else: patience and humility, definitely, but also freedom. Freedom to pursue the futile. And the freedom to suck without caring is revelatory.” Results aren’t everything. Indeed, they’d better not be, because results always come later—and later is... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
She credits her success partly to a question that her father would ask her every week when she was growing up. “What have you failed at this week?” If Sara didn’t have an answer, her father would be disappointed. To her father, failing to try was far more disappointing than failure itself.