Mistakes lead to success

A photography teacher divided his class into two groups.

The first group was given a task - to take as many photos as possible by the end of the semester. Their grade would depend solely on this. 100 photos would earn them a grade of 5, 80 photos a grade of 4, and so on.

The second group, on the other hand, was assigned to take one perfect photo.

At the end of the semester, when it was time to grade the student’s work, the professor discovered something interesting. All of the highest quality products came from the group of students who focused only on quantity.

The students who had to take as many photos as possible got to work, creating one photo after another, without worrying about the quality of the products. They made many mistakes on which they built their knowledge. With each new photo, they made new mistakes, learned something new, and applied it to the next photo.

The students who had to take one photo, on the other hand, were stuck thinking about what the perfect photo should be like - what the subject is, how it is positioned, what the lighting is like, and countless other qualities. When they tried to take this photo, they were afraid it would not be perfect, so they gave up before they could make mistakes from which to learn.

This lesson can be applied to our lives - instead of worrying about how to do new projects as best we can, it is most important to start moving. Along the way, we will make many mistakes. We should not be afraid of them or try to avoid them. Instead, we should make as many mistakes as possible and learn from them.

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm,” - Winston Churchill.