Jim Kwik explains how fear of mistakes keeps adults stuck. Kids treat errors as learning steps and keep going. Adults quit after one bad attempt. He says embrace grit and grace instead of paralysis.
A lot of people struggle with analysis paralysis. They want things to be perfect, so they never take the step. So it ends before it even starts. It's because we're fearful of making a mistake. Children aren't scared of making mistakes. They understand that mistakes are stepping stones to something bigger. Never after the 75th time do they say, okay, that's it. I'm just not going to walk. But adults, they'll try it once and they're just like, oh, because they they didn't get it perfect, then they just stop and they shrink. And in this world, you don't want to shrink. You want to inspire them with your grit, with your grace, but you have to overcome this fear of looking bad.
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