Episode 89 - They Jump All Over Your Mistakes? So?
To make mistakes is to be human. Be proud of your blunders! Robert Kennedy said, “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” Greatness is in you. Thoreau noted, “Men are born to succeed, not fail.”
But what about the people who criticize when you make mistakes? Smile and think of Bill Cosby who said, “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.”
One successful person who didn’t try to please everyone was Roughrider Teddy Roosevelt, who was a war hero, President, and initiator of the National Park System. He wrote, “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
Do you remember Nike took that same message and squished it down into 3 words?
“Just do it.”