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People like Einstein has said a lot of great things like the theory of relativity. But one of the lesser known is about creating. He said, by building and sharing it with the world requires a lot of bravery. Ultimately, it’s like breaking a part of yourself freely. You’ve probably encountered the problem of being a prisoner of your own ideas. They stop us from learning new skills and stunt our personal growth. It’s ok, it happens, and you’ve probably had tried to create something new for the first and time it probably sucked. Or when you feel everything is too much for a new idea and it just seems easier to give up? Let’s look into how we can break out of these mental prisons. By getting comfortable with failing, which is known as productive failures. This will actually be healthy and something we should do. Why we always think our work sucks at first There’s a lot going from being inferior or never feeling you will get anything right. There is a constant feeling of a gap of where you are and where you want to be. It’s difficult to feel like you can improve, as long as you don’t quit. All successful creative people have gone through this. Make it interesting, make it fun, make it worth seeing. What are closing that gap is the amount of work by not giving up. It’s all about lasting to you get there. The most important thing is being self aware about how bad you are. Give yourself permission to be terrible How do you get over being terrible? By not sticking with things that are easy. Sure, you’ll be good at them, but you would miss out on the thrill of overcoming great obstacles and thus improving yourself as a person. One thing that we can do is give ourselves the permission to be terrible. Given the knowledge of success, this really should be our first step in becoming better. Why should this be our first step? Because: Just because you’re not good at something, doesn’t mean you can’t have fun. Doing things you are good at aren’t always the most enjoyable. Being bad at something only lasts a fraction in our lifetime. Even though sucking can last awhile, keep going and you will eventually get better as practice makes perfect. Productive failure leads to faster learning The actual good news about taking on more than you can handle is when you learn something new, it can be surprisingly good for you — and can help you learn faster. The professor of Psychological studies in Hong Kong Institute of Education, Manu Kapur has said talked about productive failures. To learn, students were shown concepts that have never seen before and were tasked to work on them without prior teaching on how to. This research as shown the students who were not shown how to do something were able to outperform the other group that were shown. Kapur’s theory on what happened here is that the students who discovered on their own were able to identify what they did know compared to what they didn’t know and were able to push the limits to gain that understanding that wasn’t there before. This is deeper learning which what we gain when we try to solve things ‘the hard way’. Why learning the hard way, isn’t nearly as fun as being shown how doing something, it can actually be more productive in the long run. Developing a growth mindset Growth mindset is the ability to pathological think beyond what you’re capable of and act upon it. Carol Dweck, a researcher at Stanford University and author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, explain the difference between the two mindsets using students as an example: “In a fixed mindset, students believe their basic abilities, their intelligence, their talents, are just fixed traits. They have a certain amount and that’s that, and then their goal becomes to look smart all the time and never look dumb. In a growth mindset, students understand that their talents and abilities can be developed through effort, good teaching and persistence. They don’t necessarily think everyone’s the same or anyone can be Einstein, but they believe everyone can get smarter if they work at it.” Due to to Dwek’s studies, we now know that much of your success comes from your mind in believing, that you can do it as oppose to you can only do what you’re fixed on. Those with a growth mindset can deal with the being terrible at something, but because they mind is set on the growth, they can see that they will eventually improve and thus achieve it.