Mistakes are a key piece for learning. We've been trained to avoid making mistakes, but mistakes are a crucial piece of the learning experience. Miles Davis famously told players in his band there are no wrong notes. ‘Wrong notes’ are simply notes we haven’t resolved...

Aiming for perfection looks good on paper, but in practice, it can stand in the way of doing good work and the feeling that we're enough. I have a touch of a perfection streak. Not always, but often enough to get in the way some times. When I was a carpenter, I became...