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The Mistake Manifesto: How Making Mistakes Can Make Us Better by Alina Tugend

“While I am not advocating that we all run around blundering and goofing up all the timeâ€"and certainly none of us like dealing with people who make the same mistake over and overâ€"our fear of mistakes has a very high cost.

We exert enormous energy blaming each other when something goes wrong rather than finding a solution. Defensiveness and accusations take the place of apologies and forgiveness. Mistake-avoidance creates workplaces where making changes and being creative while risking failure is subsumed by an ethos of mistake-prevention at the cost of daring and innovation.”