Mistakes – It’s All Good
Have you seen the new BBC comedy "W1A"?
The hapless, fictional Head of Values Ian Fletcher has a catchphrase "It's all good" which he uses as his world regularly disintegrates around him.
It's a relentlessly positive trope which allows him to plough on regardless and although he is a tragi-comic figure we should take some comfort from his mantra because mistakes are OK.
Ironically, "W1A" portrays a BBC that is so petrified of making mistakes that it is paralysed by management jargon, political correctness and obfuscation, but in reality to achieve anything you have to be prepared to make mistakes. It is those people who pick themselves up and carry on that win life's prizes. Resilience is the key.
In fact resilient, successful people love talking about mistakes... And even singing about them.
"Mistakes, I've made a few" Frank Sinatra
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery" James Joyce
"The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes" Oscar Wilde
"There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons" Denis Waitley
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