because we all make mistakes
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
“Correct your mistakes before they become your habits.”
jamesclear.com • 3-2-1: On Correcting Mistakes, Youth, and Focus | James Clear
To encourage trial and error, set a goal for the minimum number of mistakes you want to make per day or per week. When you expect to stumble, you ruminate about it less—and improve more.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
It’s helpful to think in terms of: it’s only play. We’re here to play. We’re here to have fun. And to use the feedback of, you know, sometimes failure is the thing you need to know to get to where you’re going. So if you try to solve a problem 10 ways and they all fail, you can either decide I’m a failure or you can decide, okay, I’m now 10
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"The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them—especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are. The fundamental reaction to any mistake ought to be this:
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