Mistakes get a bad rap.  Experience may be a rough teacher, but you tend not to forget the lessons. My father consoled me with one of his aphorisms: “If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.”

When we make a mistake, we are taught to apologize.  Good advice.  If we are not smart enough to admit our mistakes and apologize for them, we implicitly explain their origin all too clearly.  But simply apologizing for mistakes under-values their worth. Read the rest of this entry »