Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Owning up to your flock ups

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Pledge:  Carry on frantically with the Warriors of Athena painting.  I am waiting on some more miniatures before I can start the first scenarios but I can at least get the bees painted this week while I’m getting my party of adventurers together.

This weeks question is inspired by an honest “I fucked up” video from one of the hobby YouTubers

Lint to that please.  Context is everything 🙂

Answer:  Apologies cost nothing and can mean everything so I always start with “sorry”.  Sometimes there isn’t anything that can be done to make it right so learning how to sit with that and still be okay is a lesson for life.  In these situations, like so many other human interactions, listening is more important and valuable than anything else.
It is also worth remembering that without mistakes there is no creativity.  If we do it perfectly (and therefore identically) every time we never discover any new or interesting ways to do it differently.  Not every mistake needs an apology at the end so perhaps we don’t need to be frightened of making them.

Go on, say the magic words: