Three guesses
Here’s a quick one because y’all should be reading Fear.less.
It’s easy to laugh about personal flaws. They’re sort of timeless. Teehee, I have the attention span of a turkey. Rhrhrhr, I don’t take criticism well. Fufufufu, I’m always late.
Then you actually screw something up, and that can’t in good sense be laughed away.
In a recent post I linked to Ken Robinson’s TED talk in which he said that our education system has made it a terrible, terrible thing to be wrong.
I think in our avoidance of wrongness we also lose the ability to tackle what being wrong means. If you’re the type of person who wants to learn from their mistakes you may tell yourself that you, personally, can deal with wrong. Really? Can you cope with the implications why you made a mistake?
You were not smart enough. You were not thinking about consequences. You were being selfish. What you’ve done was tasteless. You caved under pressure.
I recently messed up on an important assignment. I “blew it”, am “flippant”, and all sorts of shameful things. That’s what I get.
People who don’t take risks do so because they want to leave these judgments up in the air. If you took the risk and it went poorly, you have to accept that they were made. Probably sitting in the dark shower or with some nearby tasty beverage.
The trick: At some point, failure just has to be okay.
(read pema chodron)
(also: the wrogn on the front page was intentional. we at fear.less like to keep you on your toes)
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