"Someone gave me a quote from James Joyce's Ulysses, where Joyce wrote about how failure can lead to discovery. And he actually didn't use the word "failure"; he used the word "mistake," as in making a mistake. He said that mistakes can be the portals of discovery.
"In other words, mistakes are the portal to creativity, to learning something new, to having a fresh look on things."
–– Pema Chödrön (b. 1936), American Buddhist nun and author
Source: Pema Chödrön. Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better. Boulder, Colorado: Sounds True, 2015, p. 45.
via: Commonplace Book 2022, 2024, p. 151.
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