It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Making many mistakes is part of the learning process needed to qualify for complex tasks like rocket building.
- In plain terms
- You must make many errors before you can build a rocket.
- What can you take from it?
- Embrace failure as a step toward expertise.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When do errors become detrimental?
- How many errors are enough?
Another view
Not all errors lead to improvement.
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