An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes one can make in a very narrow field.
– Niels Bohr
Tag: mistakes
James Eaton: Getting it wrong
On making a mistake, how quickly we reach for excuses, justifications or try to blame others, as if the worse thing imaginable would be to admit we got it wrong. But who we really are has no self-image to uphold. What if it’s ok to make the most spectacular cock-up, to openly admit our mistake, to take full responsibility and apologise? What liberation! Then the fear of failure need no longer dictate our actions and we’re free to follow our bliss.
– James Eaton