Mistakes

I am starting a new series... does this make me conceited?
This series is called Happy Tuesdays. I get emails from a guy called The Happy Guy. Very good stuff.

Enjoying the first one...

One should never stop learning, for when we stop learning, we stopgrowing. And when we stop growing, we remain the same, survivingwithout a purpose. But what is the key to learning? There are more than one, of course.Curiosity is one way. Curiosity drives us to look at thingsdifferently, to stick our nose where we have never stuck it before, totry things we don’t really know how to do, to make mistakes. Andthere is no teacher better than mistakes. Without mistakes, there isvery little learning. So go out and make some mistakes. It’s the best way to make sureyou are doing more than just surviving.

Addendum: Go out there and do something thats has always scared you, something you think you can be good at but havent tried, something entrepreneurial, something life changing, something earth shattering. If you fail and your failure laughs in your face, just keep walking. Pretend its not there, pretend its only your imagination.
Thoas Edison said of the tungsten filament when he created the lightbulb, " I have only found 10,000 ways that will not work." Truth is today, we care not about his 10,000 ways but his 1 way that worked. Bruce Lee, the famous martial aritst said "I am not afraid of the man who has practiced 10000 kicks but him who has practised 1 kick 10000 times." Meaning in your mistakes, you learn to be perfect.