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The School of Greatness

516 Allow Mistakes In Your Life

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Mindset, Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Greatness, Fitness, Celebrity, Health, Inspiration, Success, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Business, Money, Self Care, Celebrity Interview

4.822K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2017

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

"The expert in anything was once a beginner at something." If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes and more at http://lewishowes.com/516

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0:00.0

Allow for mistakes in your life.

0:07.0

Mistakes are proof that you're trying.

0:09.0

Now how do you feel when you make a mistake?

0:11.5

Do you feel embarrassed or scared or disappointed or frustrated that you're not getting things

0:17.1

right?

0:18.1

Well have you ever thought about being grateful for the mistakes you made or for the failures

0:22.2

that you make?

0:24.4

Grateful that you just learned something new.

0:26.4

Grateful that you were courageous enough to try something.

0:30.0

Grateful that you might have another chance to do it right.

0:33.6

Because the truth is if you weren't trying to do something in the first place, you wouldn't

0:37.6

be making mistakes at all.

0:39.6

And most people never even try because they're so afraid of failing and making those mistakes

0:45.1

and embarrassing themselves in front of everyone.

0:48.2

Allow yourself the permission to make mistakes.

0:52.4

Let me put it this way.

0:53.4

The expert in anything was once a beginner at something.

0:58.2

That means that every expert in the world was once horrible at what they started at.

1:04.7

Think of some of the people you look up to.

1:06.4

Maybe it's Warren Buffett, Richard Branson, LeBron James, Oprah Winfrey.

1:10.7

Guess what?

1:11.7

They used to make a ton of mistakes in their area of expertise right now.

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