This article reminds me of the analogy made in the anti-procrastination book the Now Habit [0] called "raising the board". When you or your company culture tie

This article reminds me of the analogy made in the anti-procrastination book the Now Habit [0] called "raising the board". When you or your company culture tie the stakes of making a mistake into some kind of validation of your worth as an employee or as a human being, it's like taking the simple task of walking across a board on the ground, and transforming it into walking across a board 100 feet in the air with the building on your end also on fire. Obviously, it creates additional stress and anxiety that makes it significantly harder for you to get started, iterate, and bounce back from failures -- even though the actual difficulty of individual tasks hasn't changed. If this article's point appeals to anyone and they are looking for a modern researcher on the topic, I'll gently push them in the direction of Brene Brown's work on embracing vulnerability as a driver of personal growth: https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability?language=en https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability?langu... [0]: https://hashref.com/summaries/TheNowHabit.pdf https://hashref.com/summaries/TheNowHabit.pdf