Every mistake you make is a learning experience. They don't make you less capable. But it's how you correct th... — Richard Feynman

Every mistake you make is a learning experience. They don't make you less capable. But it's how you correct them or learn from them that defines you.

Author: Richard Feynman

Insight: We live in a culture that treats mistakes like they're contagious—something to hide, minimize, or blame on someone else. But what's interesting is that the people who actually get better at things aren't the ones who avoid errors. They're the ones who get curious about them. A musician plays a wrong note and immediately asks why. A programmer gets a bug and digs into the code. The difference between someone who stagnates and someone who improves is almost never about making fewer mistakes; it's about what happens next. The tricky part is that learning from mistakes requires honesty you might not feel like giving in the moment. It's easier to dismiss a failure as bad luck or someone else's fault than to actually sit with what went wrong and think about it. But that's exactly where the growth lives—in the uncomfortable pause where you could excuse yourself but choose instead to understand. You don't become capable by being perfect. You become capable by being willing to be wrong, then doing something different because of it.

Source: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, p. 342, 1985