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This is one of my favourite stories about how to get really good at something. I frequently say it to myself when I discover I have thrown myself in at the deep
by seldo 17y ago
This is one of my favourite stories about how to get really good at something. I frequently say it to myself when I discover I have thrown myself in at the deep end of a technical problem :-)
- johnl 17y agoSounds like this means you can get successful by failing? OK by me.
- j1o1h1n 17y agoOr you could just grow a moustache (http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Moustache.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Moustache.txt)
- billswift 17y agoMy second blog post last spring (http://williambswift.blogspot.com/2009/03/value-of-mistakes-mistakes-and-learning.html http://williambswift.blogspot.com/2009/03/value-of-mistakes-...) was about the value of making mistakes for learning. I see I missed the "making mistakes on purpose" bit, and am going to add a new post now about that. The general idea was referred to several times in older Whole Earth Catalogs, I should have remembered it earlier.