Dear Mistake Makers,

I fry a lot of eggs. When I first started, I screwed up all the time: broken yolks, too hard yolks, too runny yolks, bad flips. And I thought my mistakes meant that I just wasn’t good at frying eggs.

But I kept at it. (Hunger motivates!) And I still make mistakes, but now I learn from them. When I screw up, I think about what goes wrong and figure out ways to fix it next time. Rather than seeing my mistakes as an indictment, I see them as information.

Being good at something doesn’t mean you don’t make mistakes; it means you know how to learn from them.

Sincerely,

Mr. Heimbuck