Snippet 61: Scared
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Oh man do I agree with this. I don’t want to put something out and be wrong, but guess what?
When you’re in math class and the teacher asks you to figure out the problem, you have to come up with something. You make mistakes all the time and you learn the correct method(s) for dealing with them. We aren’t born knowing the answers.
To do something poorly and then to do it less poorly is not only a big part of engineering, but life itself.
I’ll have to remember that, as I’m doing my own blog and need to not let such a fear hold me back.