"Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose"
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Fear of falling is the most socially acceptable excuse we have for staying the same. Robin Quivers frames it with blunt, almost parental clarity: you do not get “good” by avoiding failure; you get good by collecting it, studying it, and moving through it. The line “Too many people don’t do things” points less at laziness than at a culture trained to treat competence as a prerequisite rather than an outcome. It’s a quiet indictment of perfectionism-as-identity, the modern habit of confusing being seen struggling with being unworthy.
Quivers’ phrasing is deliberately physical. “Falling” isn’t an abstract setback; it’s the body hitting the ground. That concreteness matters coming from a celebrity whose career has unfolded in public, where mistakes are not private learning moments but content. In that context, the quote reads like a corrective to the performance economy: if you only attempt what you can already do well, you’re not protecting your image, you’re shrinking your life.
The last sentence widens the point from self-improvement to self-preservation. “Experiences and new accomplishments” are described as “feelings,” not milestones, which subtly shifts the goal from external validation to internal aliveness. She’s arguing that novelty has an emotional texture worth defending - and that adulthood, fame, and routine all conspire to sand it down. The intent isn’t motivational poster cheer. It’s a reminder that the price of never falling is never arriving anywhere new.
Quivers’ phrasing is deliberately physical. “Falling” isn’t an abstract setback; it’s the body hitting the ground. That concreteness matters coming from a celebrity whose career has unfolded in public, where mistakes are not private learning moments but content. In that context, the quote reads like a corrective to the performance economy: if you only attempt what you can already do well, you’re not protecting your image, you’re shrinking your life.
The last sentence widens the point from self-improvement to self-preservation. “Experiences and new accomplishments” are described as “feelings,” not milestones, which subtly shifts the goal from external validation to internal aliveness. She’s arguing that novelty has an emotional texture worth defending - and that adulthood, fame, and routine all conspire to sand it down. The intent isn’t motivational poster cheer. It’s a reminder that the price of never falling is never arriving anywhere new.
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| Topic | Learning from Mistakes |
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