Jim Kwik argues that fear of mistakes keeps people stuck. Kids learn to walk and talk by falling repeatedly. The strength comes not from avoiding failure but from getting back up each time.
We shrink in our behavior because we don't want to fully express ourselves because of the fear of making mistakes, the fear of looking bad to other people. But remember that child. In order to learn to walk or to talk, they fall. And it's the strength of getting up that makes you strong to accomplish your next goal. It's not the point of falling. The people who fall the most and get up are stronger than people who never fell.
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