We spend most of our lives thinking we need to get it right. Often it leads to many anxious moments especially when you realise we’ve basically stuffed something up.
Some people stress over not getting it right believing they are made to look foolish or incompetent in front of peers especially.
No one likes to be thought of as wanting and it takes a lot of ‘growing up’ to understand you can’t always get it right, you can’t always succeed and you have to learn to deal with failure.
When I was a drama teacher one of the sayings I used was to say to a student who had an idea for a performance to give it a go and see what happens.
Sometimes it didn’t work, but most times I found what might not be their best work could be adapted to produce something they were more often than not proud of.
Ideas so often need to be explored, developed and found to be more exciting than you might at first imagine.
It wasn’t a matter of getting it right, that came later when the performance was assessed, but the initial process was development and experimentation to see where an idea might lead you.
So for me ‘getting it right’ is important, but going through the process to get to that point is all the more valuable and satisfying.
Written for: https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2019/01/24/reenas-exploration-challenge-71/
Morpethroad 
Excellent post.
That’s truly good advice. Like, give it a go, in the process, you might find a better way to it.
It happened so often
It’s a true story? Always difficult to know when an anecdote can pose for truth or fiction.
The drama bit was true, happened a lot with my students
🙂
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Getting it Right — by Michael
Couldn’t agree more with this!
Thanks so much Reena
Totally agree to this. The journey is where the learning is ..
It’s an exciting process
Excellent. Loved this post.
Thanks indira, I appreciate you stopping by to read my post.
My pleasure. You write so well.
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