There’s an old children’s book where a little piggy says, “When I make a mistake, I pick myself up.” Like the piggy, this is how we want to view mistakes: Mistakes are part of life, and they can be ...

Source: Kateryna Kon / Shutterstock When I was learning to play tennis in the early 1970s, my coach was also my father, a neuroscientist who saw racquet sports as a living laboratory. On the surface, ...

Even a dyed-in-the-wool perfectionist will tell you that we all make mistakes. Some are bigger than others, though, and if we don’t learn from them, we’re destined to make them again and again. This ...