The first time I realized a constant past was the day after my 10th birthday, the revelation took place inside the Usina-Muda lot in Tijuca carioca, as the bus went down Rua Conde de Bonfim, I was always amazed at the incredible mark of a decade of life.
I already had items to fill a large list, divided into two columns. On the left, good events, on the right, boring things. My school was at the top of disappointment, because it pushed me to do everything right. the 10-year-old verdor, felt that the mistake was half of all things.
- But then the relevance of the mistake was just the feeling and a little loneliness.
- It would be decades before the intuition that error teaches more than success becomes a consolidated knowledge.
- Two writers helped me with that.
- Oswald de Andrade when he celebrated the millionth contribution of all errors in his Pau-Brazil Poetry Manifesto.
- And the multiple Paulo Leminski writing: Herrar et umano.
- Scientists and computer scientists have also helped me by demonstrating that most of their experiments go wrong before they work.
- How much patience and perseverance to hit the target?The black dot in the center of the lens.
Not to mention what we have never achieved, if there is a mistake that leads to success, it is clear that there is a mistake that leads to another mistake.
Error is a much more inseparable part of life, its counter-poison is to remain inactive, to try nothing.
But who can endure an existence without attempts? How many times not taking risks was the biggest mistake. Today, at 60, I say it’s impossible to escape error. Should schools insist that children conjure the verb?Any time, people, media? During his life.
What I’m trying to do is turn the inevitable mistake into an opportunity. Once the mistake is made, the donkey is made, it is better to start over. Detected the error, we approach accuracy. Of course, we may suffer another mistake, but it can also be corrected, there are companies like Google that have become billionaires when correcting errors when they were already in the air, others failed in the second error. For them, as for us, making mistakes doesn’t guarantee anything, but taking advantage of what didn’t work is the difference. Or am I wrong?
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