The belief
I’m human, and I’m going to make mistakes. And that’s okay.
Where it comes from
In 2020 I made a poster with just that sentence on it, broken over five lines, so I’d see it every day. It’s the whole thing. I didn’t add a reason because it doesn’t need one.
How it shows up for me
It’s what lets me write in public, ship things before they’re perfect, and apologize without falling apart. A mistake is information, not a verdict.
It’s also the line I most need to say to myself and least manage to. I’m much kinder to other people’s mistakes than to mine.