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Make the 'right' mistake !
Dear All,
Greetings to you this Wednesday Morning !
Bill Gates – Founder and Chief Architect at Microsoft Corporation retired on 28 June 2008. You may admire or criticize him, but can’t ignore as a computer user. I personally admire him, and was reading online articles, message boards and blogs overflowing with debate about Bill Gates place in history: “will the human icon of the personal computing era be remembered in years to come as a visionary, or as a corporate villain?”. Would he be known for pace in product innovations or not been able to release lasting ‘right’ products.
Just think for a while, and you will understand, success is not about being ‘perfect’, but sometimes it is making the ‘errors’ and proving them to be right. If Mr. Bill would have remained a perfect programmer, he and Microsoft would have never grown to the size they are today. Such a wonderful example of ambition, self improvement and motivational works.
Let’s look at this closely. Every decent self-improvement book or tape will teach you to learn from your mistakes so you don't repeat them, right?
What if you made all possible mistakes of life & work, learned from them all and didn't repeat them. You'd be perfect, right?
NO ! The greater possibility is that you may end-up a ‘perfect programmer’ for bug free coding, and never know whether you and your company will be around after few years.
Make a choice like Bill Gates… don’t be afraid to makes mistakes. He's probably made more mistakes than anyone else alive, and much bigger mistakes. He's the wealthiest person alive because he'll never be perfect. He not only learns from his mistakes, he pushes himself to a higher level and makes NEW errors!
Of course learn from your mistakes and as much as human possible don't repeat them -- but keep yourself rising to new levels of ambition, achievement, experience and development.
This is called a Law of Escalating Errors. The first time you went out on a date, didn't you make mistakes? As you gained experience you made fewer mistakes on first dates and eventually went steady . . . got engaged . . . got married . . . and some married again. You made mistakes every step of the way. Making the right mistakes is a sign of growth. Some people like to refer to this process of progressing through making higher order mistakes as ‘getting out of your comfort zone’ and becoming more competitive.
Whether it's learning to play the musical instrument, accepting more challenges in career, looking for a partner in love, traveling to exotic places or doing many other of life's great activities, the worse mistake you can do is . . . nothing. And on other side, wouldn't perfection be boring?
I hope I never make the mistake of not making the right mistakes.
Make it a great week ahead!
With Love,
Greetings to you this Wednesday Morning !
Bill Gates – Founder and Chief Architect at Microsoft Corporation retired on 28 June 2008. You may admire or criticize him, but can’t ignore as a computer user. I personally admire him, and was reading online articles, message boards and blogs overflowing with debate about Bill Gates place in history: “will the human icon of the personal computing era be remembered in years to come as a visionary, or as a corporate villain?”. Would he be known for pace in product innovations or not been able to release lasting ‘right’ products.
Just think for a while, and you will understand, success is not about being ‘perfect’, but sometimes it is making the ‘errors’ and proving them to be right. If Mr. Bill would have remained a perfect programmer, he and Microsoft would have never grown to the size they are today. Such a wonderful example of ambition, self improvement and motivational works.
Let’s look at this closely. Every decent self-improvement book or tape will teach you to learn from your mistakes so you don't repeat them, right?
What if you made all possible mistakes of life & work, learned from them all and didn't repeat them. You'd be perfect, right?
NO ! The greater possibility is that you may end-up a ‘perfect programmer’ for bug free coding, and never know whether you and your company will be around after few years.
Make a choice like Bill Gates… don’t be afraid to makes mistakes. He's probably made more mistakes than anyone else alive, and much bigger mistakes. He's the wealthiest person alive because he'll never be perfect. He not only learns from his mistakes, he pushes himself to a higher level and makes NEW errors!
Of course learn from your mistakes and as much as human possible don't repeat them -- but keep yourself rising to new levels of ambition, achievement, experience and development.
This is called a Law of Escalating Errors. The first time you went out on a date, didn't you make mistakes? As you gained experience you made fewer mistakes on first dates and eventually went steady . . . got engaged . . . got married . . . and some married again. You made mistakes every step of the way. Making the right mistakes is a sign of growth. Some people like to refer to this process of progressing through making higher order mistakes as ‘getting out of your comfort zone’ and becoming more competitive.
Whether it's learning to play the musical instrument, accepting more challenges in career, looking for a partner in love, traveling to exotic places or doing many other of life's great activities, the worse mistake you can do is . . . nothing. And on other side, wouldn't perfection be boring?
I hope I never make the mistake of not making the right mistakes.
Make it a great week ahead!
With Love,
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