Posts on ‘August 30th, 2007’

Making mistakes is scary.

As with anything in life, learning from mistakes and letting that be a stepping stone can make the difference between a successful person and not-so-successful person. It has taken me a long time to get over the fear of making mistakes. In order to complete challenging tasks or achieve goals it may be necessary to make mistakes and in doing so, learning from them. Igor Stravinsky once said, “I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.” Similarly Abraham Maslow, the famous American psychologist states, “It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.”