They Made Mistakes Too!

A lesson I learned from comic strips.

When you’re learning a new skill and you’ve been trying to get better at it for a while, do you ever get frustrated and throw up your hands and say, “I CAN’T do this?” I know I have.
The Daily Doable — S1:E6 They Made Mistakes Too!

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Hi, this is Tim Maudlin. I would like to welcome you to another episode of The Daily Doable. You’re looking at a drawing that I did. I’m an architectural illustrator, which means I draw buildings before they’re built. I’ll explain why we’re looking at this in a second.

Sometimes it’s easy to look at successful people and to think that they never make mistakes. They are so good at what they do. It’s easy to think that they never struggle. I know that’s been my case.

Whenever I draw buildings like this and create these drawings, I would get frustrated because I never could create the perfect drawing. It seems like I always made a mistake somewhere.

My perspective on that changed though. Several years ago, I had the opportunity to go to the Library of Congress. There was an exhibit celebrating the…