Don’t be afraid to mess up. Don’t mess up on purpose, but don’t let fear of making mistakes intimidate you.
不要害怕做錯事。不要刻意弄糟，但不要讓害怕犯錯阻礙了你的前進。
A key personality trait you can develop is resilience. You can only learn it by practice, and you will have lots of practice, because indeed you will mess up. Just don’t let it get to you. Bounce back.
你可以發展的一個關鍵的人格特性是——韌性。你只有通過各種實踐去得到韌性，然後你將擁有很多實踐機會，因為你實際上失敗了。不要屈服於失敗。要學會東山再起。
你可以消滅我，但你不能打敗我
I messed up in school, getting a D in my junior level Electricity and Magnetism course at Columbia. That was a monumental mess up. I recovered.
我曾在學校遇挫。在哥倫比亞大學就讀時，初級電磁學課程我得了個D（睿丁君：表示很低的成績）。這是一個前所未有的失敗。我振作了。
A few years later, I remember walking away from the first big lecture I gave at Berkeley knowing that I had badly messed up. But now, many decades later, I think I am the only person in the world who remembers.
幾年後，我記得我離開了在伯克利的第一個重要演講，當時我知道自己搞砸了。但是現在，幾十年後的今天，我想我是世界上唯一一個記得的人。
伯克利大學
When you mess up, admit your mistake. Pledge to yourself that you will learn, and greatly reduce the likelihood of a similar mess up in the future.
當你陷入困境時，承認錯誤。向自己保證，你會學到東西，並大大降低將來發生類似混亂的可能性。
When I was a graduate student, I dropped a $10,000 photomultiplier tube, and thought that my career as an experimental physicist had just ended. When my mentor Luis Alvarez heard about it, he made a point of seeking me out. He looked me in the eye, held out his hand, and said “Congratulations!” I was completely mystified. He explained that the fact that I was being allowed by the other research members to handle such a device meant that I had earned their respect and their trust, and that’s what his congratulations were for. If you handle big delicate equipment, sometimes you will drop it. Try not to. But far worse would be to stay away out of fear of messing up.
Luis W. Alvarez美國物理學家
當我還是研究生的時候，我摔碎了一個價值1萬美元的光電倍增管，並認為我作為實驗物理學家的職業生涯就將結束。當我的導師路易斯·阿爾瓦雷斯聽到這個消息的時候，他特意來找我。他看著我的眼睛，伸出手說:“恭喜你!”我完全搞不懂。他解釋說，其他研究人員允許我使用這種設備，這意味著我贏得了他們的尊重和信任，這就是他的祝賀。如果你處理大型精密設備，有時你會摔掉它。儘量避免。但更糟糕的是，因為害怕搞砸而逃離它。
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