Daniel Dennett Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

  Daniel Dennett

  Mistake, Chiefs, Tricks

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

• The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are.

  Daniel Dennett

  Art, Mistake, Mind

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

• Try to acquire the weird practice of savoring your mistakes, delighting in uncovering the strange quirks that led you astray. Then, when you have sucked out all the goodness to be gained from having made them, you can cheerfully forget them and go on to the next big opportunity.

  Daniel Dennett

  Mistake, Opportunity, Practice

• Sometimes you don’t just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them - if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix.

  Daniel Dennett

  Mistake, Giving, Risk

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

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