Marino Therapy Centre

Some of the world’s most renowned artists, such as Claude Monet, the famous dancer Isadora Ducan, Charles Dickens or Mark Twain never finished their schooling days – yet we learn in school about their celebrated works. Tom Cruise, Cher, Hans Christian Anderson and Leonardo da Vinci all had learning disabilities, and that is why they are or were so brilliant. They had many talents, but the one thing they have in common is that they were not afraid of taking risks. They all had many failures, but they kept trying and ultimately conquered the challenges set before them.

Walt Disney, the man who created Disneyland and a world of cartoon characters was even fired by a newspaper editor who claimed he had no good ideas! Instead of believing this to be true, he went on to create some of the world’s best loved characters who are still entertaining people, young and old, today.

Thomas Edison’s teachers called him ‘stupid’. Were they right? He did, after all, make over 3,000 mistakes on his way to inventing the light bulb – and he also held over one thousand patents for other things. Of course, if he had believed he was stupid he might never have achieved anything in his life and we’d still be sitting in the dark…

So, what could you try to achieve today without being afraid of not being perfect? Why not just give yourself permission to not want to be perfect. It would bring you new freedom. It would give you a better understanding of others, and it would show you that it is not important to be the best - but rather to be the one who enjoys things because people who enjoy things are the real winners in life.

I give myself permission to make mistakes