> [!tldr] It takes a certain amount of failure to become a master. You can stretch these out and make it take long, or you can fail faster, learn faster, and achieve more overall. Don't avoid failure. From [[Effortless]] - an example given in the book about learning to speak, which also jives with the story about polyglots from [[Hidden Potential]]: When you're learning a language, imagine you had a jar of 1000 beads. Every time you speak to someone in the new language and make a mistake, remove one bead from the jar. By the time you remove all the beads from the jar, you'll have achieved level 1 mastery. You can try to get everything perfect and try to make no mistakes, but that will have the effect of simply making the necessary mistakes take longer. Ultimately you master the language (or skill, disciple, whatever) by making those mistakes. [[Growth Requires Discomfort]]. The whole Thomas Edison light bulb thing also comes to mind: > [!quote] > I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. > <cite>Thomas Edison</cite> **** # More ## Source - [[Effortless]] - [[Hidden Potential]] - https://www.thomasedison.org/edison-quotes