"Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart"
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The phrasing does two things at once. "Taking what you learn" honors experience as useful data, not destiny. Then "moving on" refuses the cultural fetish for endless processing, the idea that every hurt must become an identity project. The kicker is "not taking it to heart" - a surprisingly specific boundary. It's not "don't feel", it's "don't metabolize everything as a verdict on your worth". She sketches an emotional algorithm: extract the lesson, release the residue.
As an actress who came up young in an industry that commodifies likability and punishes missteps, Mitchell's subtext reads like self-protection that hardened into wisdom. Child stardom and celebrity culture train you to confuse feedback with truth: an audition rejection, a tabloid headline, a bad interview clip. Her sentence pushes back against that trap, reframing pain as information rather than a permanent stain.
The intent lands especially well now, in an era of screenshot accountability and therapeutic language used as a performance. Mitchell isn't offering numbness; she's offering mobility. Growing up, here, is the ability to stay teachable without becoming tenderized.
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| Topic | Learning from Mistakes |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Mitchell, Beverley. (2026, January 16). Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/part-of-growing-up-is-just-taking-what-you-learn-114378/
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Mitchell, Beverley. "Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/part-of-growing-up-is-just-taking-what-you-learn-114378/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/part-of-growing-up-is-just-taking-what-you-learn-114378/. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.








