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Okay, today is a podcast all about mistakes. So, um, I've talked about wanting to do this podcast,

and I felt it was finally time to do it. So I'm going to explain today why mistakes aren't as bad as you think they are.

And talk a little bit about mistakes as part of the creative process.

Okay, so first and foremost, let's begin with the most important lesson here, which is

the fear of making a mistake is far greater than mistakes.

That I think a lot of people are so worried about making a mistake that what they do is far more dangerous than the mistakes themselves.

And what that is is when you are being creative,

if you limit yourself because you want to make sure that you never make a mistake. You end up being so cautious that you never push any boundaries that you never try to stretch

yourself because part of making sure that you are within your boundaries of never making

mistake is staying away from the edges.

And the edges, my friend, are where a lot of the awesome things happen.

So part of what I wanted today is I'm going to walk you through what mistakes are, what they can do for you, and why you as a creative person need not be quite as afraid of them as maybe you are.

Okay, so here's the first thing. Mistakes are the best teachers. Success does not teach well. What success does, success says, do it again. Success breeds repetition. That when something succeeds, you go, oh, that worked. I better do that again. And in fact, one of the most common mistakes that is made is people

will do something, it's successful, and they had, because they don't know what made it successful,

they just do everything again. And when they don't realize is the success was not all the

individual choices, but the combination of the choices. And that, um, sometimes they'll a Seymour, a sophomore, a Seymour, a sophomore slump.

See, I make mistakes.

During my mistake, I guess.

A sophomore slump, which is you do something and you kind of keep doing that thing and you get trapped inside what you think the thing is.

So what happens is people do something creative,

there's a lot of people like it,

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