"FAIL, FAIL AGAIN, FAIL BETTER." - Samuel Beckett

THE PERSON WHO DOESN'T MAKE MISTAKES IS UNLIKELY TO MAKE ANYTHING!

("If you can't save a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules!")

Benjamin Franklin said, "I haven't failed, I've had 10,000 ideas that didn't work."

Thomas Edison said, " Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt."

Theatre director Joan Littlewood said, "If we don't get lost, we'll never find a new route."

All of them understood that failures and false starts are a precondition of success.
Failure is a major contributor to success.

BEING right is based upon knowledge and experience and is often provable. Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality. Experience is the opposite of being creative. Being right is also being boring. Your mind is closed. You are not open to new ideas. You are rooted in your own rightness, which is arrogant. Arrogance is a valuable tool, but only if used very sparingly. So: it's wrong to be right, because people who are right are rooted in the past, rigid-minded, dull and smug.

IT IS RIGHT TO BE WRONG!

START being wrong and suddenly anything is possible. You are in the unknown. There's no way of knowing what can happen, but there's more chance of it being amazing that if you try to be right. Of course, being wrong is a risk. People worry about suggesting stupid ideas because of what others will think. You will have been in meetings where new thinking has been called for, at your original suggestion. Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up by having more. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here.

Your vision of where or who you want to be is the greatest asset you have.