'The hardest freedom to maintain is the freedom of making mistakes.'
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Maintaining the liberty to err is difficult because consequences often deter it.
- In plain terms
- It is hard to stay free to make mistakes because people fear the results.
- What can you take from it?
- Freedom includes the right to fail.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What freedom do you guard?
- How do you handle errors?
Another view
Some mistakes have irreversible harms.
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