Life starts to be fun when you allow yourself making mistakes and failing.
Not really much more to add on top of the title.
You learn enormously by making mistakes. That’s a fact too easiy to forget when pursuing pure success.
So learning to allow yourself to be ok with making mistakes and failing is a key to live life to the fullest. Worry less, take risks, be optimistic about everything you do.
Then success comes naturally. You don’t strive or struggle towards such success. It is the result of your wanting to experiment, try things out and allow mistakes to happen.
That’s the way the genius mind go about it. Play with life more - sounds like a good life motto.
MORE sources:
- “Failures in Group Work” by Robert K. Conyne
Actual failures in group work are examined in this book, as are the ways in which group leaders learnt from their mistakes, transforming failure into success. - “Celebrate Your Mistakes: And 77 Other Risk-taking, Out-of-the-Box Ideas from Our Best Companies”
Describes the corporate benefits of examining mistakes and the dangers of becoming distracted by success. - “Mistakes Are Great (Adventures in Human Potential)” by By Dan Zadra, Bob Moawad
Explains that occasional failures are a natural part of being human and encourages children to learn from their mistakes and improve rather than becoming intimidated by failure. - “From Lemons to Lemonade: Squeeze Every Last Drop of Success Out of Your Mistakes”
We all fail. And we all want to learn from our failures. But learning from failure doesn’t happen automatically. It requires very specific emotional and rational skills. You can learn those skills—from this book. Drawing on leading-edge research with hundreds of failing and successful entrepreneurs, Dr. Dean A. Shepherd offers powerful strategies for managing the emotions generated by failure—so failure becomes less devastating, learning happens faster, and you grow as much as possible from the experience. Shepherd shows how to clarify why you failed, so you can walk away with insights you can actually use…how to eliminate “secondary” stresses that aggravate failure or make it more likely…how to master the self-compassion you deserve in times of trouble…and a whole lot more. Failing will never be easy or desirable. But this book will make it less catastrophic, and more instructive—so you can get back to success and get there fast. - “Celebrating Failure: The Power of Taking Risks, Making Mistakes and Thinking Big”
Ralph Heath posits that it might well be failure, because if you do it right, failure can become a launching pad for change. Heath contends that positive failures are not only necessary steps on the path to success, but encourage greater freedom to take risks in pursuit of one’s life goals.
Funny how the very first books on the list were printed AGES AGO, in e.g. 1985!!! And the last two, are NOT yet available, because will be published in the summer later on this year 2009!
It seems we’re learning about the value of mistakes and failure once again.
