@misc{cogprints288,
          editor = {Brockman J and Matson K},
           title = {How to Make Mistakes},
          author = {Daniel C Dennett},
       publisher = {William Morrow and Company, New York},
            year = {1995},
           pages = {137--144},
         journal = {How Things Are},
             url = {http://cogprints.org/288/},
        abstract = {Making mistakes is the key to making progress. There are times, of course, when it is important not to make any mistakes--ask any surgeon or airline pilot. But it is less widely appreciated that there are also times when making mistakes is the secret of success. What I have in mind is not just the familiar wisdom of nothing ventured, nothing gained. While that maxim encourages a healthy attitude towards risk, it doesn't point to the positive benefits of not just risking mistakes, but actually of making them. Instead of shunning mistakes, I claim, you should cultivate the habit of making them. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are. You should seek out opportunities to make grand mistakes, just so you can then recover from them.}
}

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