This week the clip chosen because of its potential interest to coaches is from an independent TEDx event. Designer, illustrator, children’s book author and corporate speaker Leslie McGuirk talks about creative thinking in “The Importance of Being Wrong”
The Importance of Being Wrong | Leslie McGuirk | TEDxHollywood
Clip length: 10 mins 17 secs
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“Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.”
(John Churton Collins)
“My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.”
(Beatrice Wood)
“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
(Jules Verne)
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
(James Joyce)
“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth… not going all the way, and not starting.”
(Anon)
“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.”
(Lucy Maud Montgomery)
“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.”
(John Wooden)