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Feb 25, 2011
"Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom."
—Phyllis Theroux
Do you remember the name of your kindergarden teacher? I do, mine. Her name was Mrs White. I don't remember much about what we learned in her class, but my mother once told me that we used to write a lot. And I would bring back what I wrote and she would look at it and see there were so many mistakes. But no red corrections. And always a star. Sometimes even a Good! scrawled in that would make my heart soar with happiness. But it worried my mother, so one day when she went in to meet Mrs White for one of those Parent-Teacher meetings, she asked her why she never corrected my mistakes...
When you find yourself held back by a fear of failure, remember: mistakes are good. And baeutiful. :)