Piggybacking on the words of Kathryn Schulz, we don't need to be right at everything. In elementary school, the kid who's paper was marked up by the teacher was thought as the dumb kid/the kid always making trouble/the douche who forgets their homework… so now today
we associate those who are wrong as extremely negative (or at the deepest personal level we denounce the person as a "fucking idiot") and therefore the best practice is to never make mistakes.
To apply this idea to a different topic lets think about those folks who were always correct... The straight A/workaholic/just freaking smart dude. Post college they tended to be doctors or lawyers but perhaps they themselves needed to take more chances and make mistakes? Maybe the path not taken would have produced a career platform that would have exponentially magnified the individual’s talents into a greater good for society... It is good to fail, hit the wall, and be directed in a different direction.
Like Lance Armstrong who only won the tour de France after he had cancer... the surviving & overcoming & risk taking acts as a catalyst for accomplishing great and extraordinary feats.
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