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“ Okay, fine. We hear this kind of advice all the time: learn from your mistakes, don’t be afraid of risk, be resilient, blah blah blah. We tend to tune it out in part because we see it as moral advice — advice on how to have good character. But let’s look at it a different way. The advice they’re giving isn’t just moral. It’s neural. What I mean is this: mistakes create unique conditions of high-velocity learning that cannot be matched by more stable, “successful” situations. When it comes to building fast, beautiful neural circuits, mistakes aren’t really mistakes — they’re information. They are the navigation points from which those circuits are constructed, wire by wire. The lesson is that business operates by exactly the same evolutionary principles as sports or art or math or music: we have to take risks, make mistakes, screw up in order to build better brains.
The Genius of Screwups « The Talent Code
