A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
This week's Motivation Monday Quote for 27th April 2020 comes from George Bernard Shaw.
Interpretation Of The Quote
George Bernard Shaw is an Irish playwright and critic.
Shaw published the text of his play “The Doctor’s Dilemma” together with a lengthy preface which included this quote in 1911.
Taking action and doing things may lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
The one significant lesson that comes out of this quote is there will be no progress if we do nothing. One example is progress made from all the theories and experiments of the scientific community through trial and errors.
In business, one have to take action to create a product, offer a service and continually take action to reach out to the target market in order to create value and generate income. Jobs are created because there is something that needs to be done. Many of these actions includes mistakes that takes place every day.
Action We Can Take
When you are creating a new income stream, will we more likely to make mistakes or be perfect?
We can do nothing and know exactly what we are getting?
or we can do something, including making mistakes?
Sure , mistakes are part of any journey but we can also be a little smarter how we do it…
- Learn from the mistakes of others so we can avoid it
- Be open to the mistakes we make
- Look at mistakes not as failure but learning experiences
- Learn from it and avoid it the next time
Sharing and networking with like minded people can help up work smarter learning from others.

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