Don’t be afraid to mess up. Don’t mess up on purpose, but don’t let fear of making mistakes intimidate you.

不要害怕做错事。不要刻意弄糟，但不要让害怕犯错阻碍了你的前进。

A key personality trait you can develop is resilience. You can only learn it by practice, and you will have lots of practice, because indeed you will mess up. Just don’t let it get to you. Bounce back.

你可以发展的一个关键的人格特性是——韧性。你只有通过各种实践去得到韧性，然后你将拥有很多实践机会，因为你实际上失败了。不要屈服于失败。要学会东山再起。

你可以消灭我，但你不能打败我

I messed up in school, getting a D in my junior level Electricity and Magneti *** course at Columbia. That was a monumental mess up. I recovered.

我曾在学校遇挫。在哥伦比亚大学就读时，初级电磁学课程我得了个D（睿丁君：表示很低的成绩）。这是一个前所未有的失败。我振作了。

A few years later, I remember walking away from the first big lecture I gave at Berkeley knowing that I had badly messed up. But now, many decades later, I think I am the only person in the world who remembers.

几年后，我记得我离开了在伯克利的之一个重要演讲，当时我知道自己搞砸了。但是现在，几十年后的今天，我想我是世界上唯一一个记得的人。

伯克利大学

When you mess up, admit your mistake. Pledge to yourself that you will learn, and greatly reduce the likelihood of a similar mess up in the future.

当你陷入困境时，承认错误。向自己保证，你会学到东西，并大大降低将来发生类似混乱的可能性。

When I was a graduate student, I dropped a $10,000 photomultiplier tube, and thought that my career as an experimental physicist had just ended. When my mentor Luis Alvarez heard about it, he made a point of seeking me out. He looked me in the eye, held out his hand, and said “Congratulations!” I was completely mystified. He explained that the fact that I was being allowed by the other research members to handle such a device meant that I had earned their respect and their trust, and that’s what his congratulations were for. If you handle big delicate equipment, sometimes you will drop it. Try not to. But far worse would be to stay away out of fear of messing up.

Luis W. Alvarez美国物理学家

当我还是研究生的时候，我摔碎了一个价值1万美元的光电倍增管，并认为我作为实验物理学家的职业生涯就将结束。当我的导师路易斯·阿尔瓦雷斯听到这个消息的时候，他特意来找我。他看着我的眼睛，伸出手说:“恭喜你!”我完全搞不懂。他解释说，其他研究人员允许我使用这种设备，这意味着我赢得了他们的尊重和信任，这就是他的祝贺。如果你处理大型精密设备，有时你会摔掉它。尽量避免。但更糟糕的是，因为害怕搞砸而逃离它。