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A Failure is not Always a Mistake

September 2, 2024 By Jimelle Carlson

This week’s growth Mindset quote is, “A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”  – B.F. Skinner
 
Achieving great accomplishments often requires repeatedly failing and trying again. Learning how to play guitar requires month after month of enduring the pain of callused fingertips and hearing yourself play bad notes until one day you can play a song. Learning how to surf or snowboard requires fall after fall until one day you can balance on the board.
 
And so it is with any goal – whether your desire is to improve your brain speed, your focus, your math abilities, your social skills, or your level of patience – the way to achieve your goal is to put in the effort, fail, learn from the failure, and then try again.
 
This week I want to encourage you to not allow fear of failure, or the pain of previous failures, to stop you from trying. Embrace failure as a pathway to great things, and offer yourself grace when you stumble. You are capable of great things… don’t give up!

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