Don’t make mistakes?
Lifehack.org has a post about six ways to get more done each day. Number six reads:
“6. Avoid to make mistakes
Finally, mistakes are the one of the most deadly time waster. If you have made one mistake on a task, the time of correcting it, or apologize to your customers or boss will cost you much more time. Better to be careful at the first time and finish it. Everyone make mistake, but there aren’t any excuse if you are making the same mistake twice. Note it down as notes and remind yourself when you are doing similar tasks again.”
Good advice, when you have made a mistake, be sure to correct it quickly. But if NOT making mistakes is one of your top priorities, you could end up making no progress.
David Kelley of Ideo says “fail faster, succeed sooner”. In a 1997 article in Fast Company, he explains:
“At Ideo, we believe that enlightened trial and error beats the planning of flawless intellects. In other words, we fail faster to succeed sooner. The reason is simple: The best solutions to most problems are rarely the most obvious. So we brainstorm lots of ideas, prototype the most promising ones, and learn from those that don’t work.”
My number six would be: Make mistakes, but don’t screw up. Learn fast when you fail.
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