because we all make mistakes
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
"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:
... See moreCreate a "failure resume". Document your mistakes and what you learned from them. This helps normalize failure and turn it into a powerful tool for growth. You'll read it and be reminded
How to win in your 20s
Learn to embrace and define failure. I am not afraid to fail. Sports is a movement; you must keep moving
Eliud Kipchoge: Lessons from world marathonchampion - TRT Afrika
To paraphrase Buffett and Munger – decision-making is not about making brilliant decisions, but avoiding terrible ones. Mistakes and dumb decisions are a fact of life and I’m going to make more, but as long as I can avoid the big or “fatal” ones I’m fine.
Matter
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
“Successes are revised mistakes.”
3-2-1: On social skills, gratitude, and making life count
