If you’re proud because you haven’t made any mistakes recently, you need to reevaluate your life.

Because if you’re not falling down occasionally, you’re coasting through life.

A mistake, an error, a fall: what these are are things that demonstrate that you’ve gone out of your area of competence. And getting outside of your areas of competence is where you learn. Where you grow. Where you develop the ability to accomplish new things.

Don’t coast through life. Be bold and unafraid and make frequent mistakes. Because that’s how you know you’re alive.