"make mistakes and learn from them". So obvious, well-known and true... but it has a certain reassuring omph when someone at the absolute top of their field sa

"make mistakes and learn from them". So obvious, well-known and true... but it has a certain reassuring omph when someone at the absolute top of their field says it, with examples from their experience. It doesn't need to be right the first time. In fact, it can't be right the first time, because there's things that you don't know - and can't know - til you make those mistakes. He said they're "failures, but that's not quite the right word". Another word is "experiment", but that doesn't capture how much these mistakes hurt. They are real.