“Pros make as many mistakes as amateurs; they’ve just learned how to gracefully recover from their mistakes.”
“Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points.”
I’ve been aggregating advice in themes from Kevin Kelly’s book – “Excellent Advice for Living.” These two notes were beautiful and linked in my mind.
The moment we try new things, we are sure to make mistakes. The challenge is gracefully recovering from them and realizing that failure is not the falling down, it is the staying down.
This is where unfailing enthusiasm becomes our biggest ally. Our ability to stick with things opens more doors full of learning opportunity simply because everyone else along for the ride gave up.
