I’ve been reading One Continuous Mistake by Gail Sher. In it, she writes about your working wholeheartedly (on whatever it is you’re passionate about) will involve mistake after mistake in order to master your craft. The secret to success is to not only keep working on what you’re already good at but to be courageous enough to go in the darkness.
Practice = One Contentious Mistake. We learn so much from our mistakes because they require us to analyse where we went wrong and invent fresh strategies.
At one point she quotes Samuel Beckett, the Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French (thank you Wikipedia):
Practice = One Contentious Mistake. We learn so much from our mistakes because they require us to analyse where we went wrong and invent fresh strategies.
At one point she quotes Samuel Beckett, the Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French (thank you Wikipedia):
It’s even a very popular tattoo for many people
including tennis star Stan Wawrinka's.
What are you working on? Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail Better.
Carpe Diem Life,
David Kuhn
David Kuhn
CarpeDiem-Life.com
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