It sounds scary and intimidating at first, but failing and making mistakes in a professional setting should be no more or less scary or intimidating than failing and making mistakes and learning in an educational environment. At first, I was cautious during this internship. I think that most people would be. But, pretty quickly I learned that, there too, it was important for the workplace to be a safe place to fail and iterate.
Today, I spent some time building, and destroying, and rebuilding different ideas and concepts. I made myself pretty frustrated in doing this. I felt stuck at times. But one thing that my sponsor told me this morning was that I shouldn't be afraid to produce the most ridiculous things. He said I should just get the ideas out there and then deal with them later. Today, by doing this, I was able to take my ideas and iterate pretty quickly. In school, we learn to try and fail and fix our mistakes. In this setting, I was happy to find that coworkers could actually be even more accepting of failure.
Sounds like you are making a lot of good progress, Corey. It's true that one shouldn't be afraid to make mistakes, they can only help in the long run. It's great that you are getting your ideas out there, keep it up.
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