The joy of being wrong
A Nobel Prize winner walked up to Adam Grant after a talk and told him, smiling, that he’d been wrong.…
All Quotes for thoughts
All Quotes
If you are not willing to be a fool
Julia Child dropped a potato pancake on live TV and kept cooking. Jordan Peterson’s quote explains why looking foolish is…
If you’re not making mistakes
When Joshua Foer’s progress stalled while training for the USA Memory Championship, he sped up a metronome to push himself…
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes
Thomas Carlyle lost a whole book to a fire after lending out his only copy. His quote explains how to…
I never learned anything
At 19, Bobby Jones tore up his scorecard at St Andrews and walked off. Six years later he won there.…
You have to get comfortable with failure
Will Smith called After Earth the most painful failure of his career. His quote explains why he went looking for…
I learned much from my teachers
Teachers save you time and books give you more teachers than any school can. This quote explains why your own…
Failing is a feature
Netflix built a program to crash its own servers on purpose. Chris Anselmo’s quote explains why your failures can work…
The greatest teacher, failure is
A Princeton professor posted a CV of his failures for his students. Yoda’s quote explains why that works, and how…
Sometimes you win
Sara Blakely’s father asked his kids what they had failed at every week. John C. Maxwell’s quote explains why that…