Mistakes are Cool

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[Adrian Savage]

This is a wise and timely article. There's one other thing mistakes need: time. Time to understand what went wrong and learn from it. Too much speed is the enemy of learning.

When people are harrassed, by others or by their own mistaken values, and try to do everything quickly, there's no time to take a risk or make a mistake. The result is a generation of managers who take the "safe option" because there isn't space in their schedule to try new ways. Getting it done is all they have time for.

So long as we don't allow enough time to do a job correctly, the result will be mediocrity and an over-reliance on conventional "answers." That's why I launched http://www.slowleadership.org -- to start a conversation on allowing ourselves time to be good leaders.

[John Richardson]

Rosa,
I agree with your assessment of mistakes. I posted an article a while back on my blog about making mistakes at Toastmasters. The link is http://successbeginstoday.org/wordpress/?p=76
The greatest learning usually comes from our mistakes... just ask Thomas Edison.

John

[Rosa]

Mahalo nui for the link to your article John.

I now remember reading it back when you first posted it, but I had focused on the ToastMasters discussion versus the connection to mistakes, so it was good just now to read it again.

I also liked that quote you included from Steve Pavlina, good words: what's so terrible about being wrong? ... you have the right to be wrong!