Fail. Learn. Grow. And again.
Like learning to put on mascara 👁️
There are mistakes, and then there are MISTAKES:
a mistake: 🩲 Thinking you’ll fit into the smaller size underwear and buying – not the 3-in-a-pack, but the 7-in-a-pack panties – that’s a basic mistake. You will probably not do it again.
A MISTAKE: 🚀 The likelihood of us ordinary folk causing a major scale event, like leaving a surgical instrument in a patient’s body or blowing up a spaceship, is slim.
A HAUNT-YOU-FOR-THE-REST-OF-YOUR-LIFE kind of mistake: 💥 This can easily happen following a little bad choice here and a little bad choice there. I imagine something like choosing to work through the night; choosing to drive even though you’re tired; choosing to check a text message on your cell phone while driving ➡️ not noticing the stop sign ➡️ causing a fatal accident.
These are mistakes that can be avoided.
BUT
🌱 Making mistakes – failing – is also a necessary part of life.
You don’t get to an end state without failing a few times.
Think about it.
If you’re able to walk, drive a car, or cook a meal – you didn’t get to that point without falling, stalling the engine or under/overcooking something.
Without failing, there is no success. You try and try again. You think what you did wrong and try again in a different way.
👁️ Of course, there are mistakes you make while learning that you actually WANT to avoid, like poking your own eye with the mascara brush …
Failure is one of the levers of a successful life, says Chase Jarvis in Never play it safe.
If you’re afraid to fail, it’s as good as being afraid to live!
Here is what stood out for me about failure:
So, go forth and fail 😉
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