Failure Can Be An Adventure to Adapt and Overcome
If you don’t find how many ways to fail, you really have failed
“Do it right the first time”
That line was drilled into me as I grew up.
My mother believed every job, every challenge, must be done right the first time. Anything else was failure.
She gave instructions, total compliance expected. If I didn’t meet those expectations, then I failed to follow instructions. No matter how careful or exact I was. The failure was mine, never the instructions.
The number one rule to be remembered — mother was not always right, but, she was never ever wrong. No matter what.
She instilled a strong sense of shame about failure. To her, failure to accomplish was failure of me as a person.
“If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.” — Coleman Hawkins
Repeating a job incurred her wrath, delivered verbally and physically, if not done with lightening speed and accuracy. Best read her mind to know her wishes, spoken and unspoken.
Do not argue, do not suggest. You will be wrong.
