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The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

— Edward John Phelps

A crumpled paper sheet with a blue ink stain rests beside a clean blank sheet on a pale surface.
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Avoiding every mistake sounds admirable until this line flips the assumption. Making nothing at all, it argues, is the real cost of never risking error. Mistakes, in this framing, become a natural byproduct of actually doing something.

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