Just sharing a musing of mine:

In life, making mistakes is part and parcel of the learning process, as we traverse the Highway of Life.

We can more or less say this is going through the University of Hard Knocks.

The most important thing for each and every one of us, is evaluating - and learning from the mistakes made, and ensuring that we don't make the same mistake on the forward trajectory.

The fear of making mistakes (as part of my intellectual concoction The Triunity of Fear, with the remaining two being Fear of the Unknown and Fear of Ridicule or Looking Stupid Among Our Peers) is quite natural.

As Dr Maltz had asserted, face it and deal with it.

As another wise one once said, FEAR is spelt as Face Everything And Rise!

In doing so, as I have had discovered from my own fair share of making mistakes, I have had indeed eventually gained the advantage of outgrowing and outperforming my own perceptions of fear.

As a parting shot, I like to share the life philosophy of Henry Ford:

1. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

2. The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

3. What is life, but attempting to triumph after failure, anyway?

Enjoy!