Jacques Fresco and Evan Carmichael argue that mistakes are how we learn. People who tried to build wings or experiment with explosives died, but their failures taught us. Most people freeze at the thought of small errors and never try anything new. Every successful entrepreneur has a long history of failures before they win.
Good morning, Believe Nation! Today's message is everyone makes mistakes. Over to you, Jacques Fresco.
This is how you learn. I think I told some of you in the past that Sincere people believed man can fly and they built small wings. And the guy jumped off the Eiffel Tower and he died. And his brother wrote, "Make wings larger next time." That's how you get experience. Everybody makes mistakes. Or nobody makes any mistakes. The first guy that fooled with nitroglycerin, nitric acid and glycerin, the building disappeared, so did the guy. His cousin wrote, "Never fool with that stuff." So there's only one way to learn, and that's no one makes mistakes. They try whatever they know. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
So this is an interesting message. You know, I don't know that you need to kill yourself to learn in some of those examples, but I think too many people are afraid of making mistakes. I think too many people are living their life because they're afraid of making even the smallest mistake, and that means you play your life so safe that you don't ever go after anything. Great. Along the path to learning anything, you make mistakes. You want to learn to ride a skateboard, you're going to fall over a bunch of times, right? Or maybe learn a bicycle, as we probably all do. You know, when you first started, you fell, right? Or you had somebody guide you and hold you. You're trying to learn a language, you're going to make grammatical mistakes. You're trying to run a business, you're going to make business mistakes, right? Whatever you do, you base it off what you know. And the more you can model success, the more you can get an education, the more you can get experience, the more you can learn from others, great, but also testing things out for yourself, testing your assumptions, going with what you know and trying to build off of that. And part of entrepreneurship is creating something that's never been created before, right? Either create a new product, create a new service, create a new way of dealing with customers, creating a new technology. Part of being an entrepreneur, that's the exciting stuff, is creating something that has never been done before. And so if you're going to do that, you're going to make mistakes along the way. It's just going to happen. Because it's never been done before. So there's nobody to show you that path, and so you're gonna fall down, and that's okay. And I think too many people make a mistake and then they say, "I'm not gonna be successful, I quit." And the people in their lives point at them and say, "Hahaha, you know, I knew you couldn't do it. Look at that big mistake that you make." And if you make mistake after mistake after mistake, eventually you figure out a way to get it right. And every successful entrepreneur, if you look at their history, has a whole bunch of mistakes before they were able to build something massively successful. So don't be afraid of mistakes. Don't make it this big stigma against you. I've made tons of mistakes. I can't even remember how many mistakes I made today in my business. Tons of mistakes. That's okay, you pick up, you keep moving on, and from the mistakes you learn to be more successful. So the question today I have for you guys today is I wanna know what's the biggest mistake you've ever made? Leave in the comments below, I'm curious to find out. I'm gonna join the discussion. Thank you so much for watching. Have an amazing day. Continue to believe, and I'll see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of espresso.
