Talent development comes through deliberate deep practice, making mistakes, spotting the mistakes and going back and doing it again. If you’re trying to avoid making mistakes, you’re avoiding learning.

What’s your attitude towards the idea of making mistakes and focusing on your mistakes in order to learn? Notice if you have any resistance or fear about making mistakes and notice what your story is about mistakes and failure that’s causing your resistance and fear.

Is that story true? What evidence in this Bottom-line could offer you a new paradigm on the meaning of mistakes and failure?

This post is an excerpt from this month’s feature: “The Bottom-line on Daniel Coyle”

For the full Bottom-line audio and transcript, workbook, author interview and set of coaching emails, check out The Bottom-line on The Talent Code.