Make Pardonable Mistakes. Now go figure.

"Make deliberate mistakes, you've learned to minimize the number of mistakes you make as you rise up the ranks, so also you minimize the challenges to your assumptions, and thereby reducing your learning."
- Harvard Business Review senior editor Gardiner Morse.
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My Take:
1. One tends to avoid mistakes because they can be costly, a particularly severe one and you could be out of the game.
2. Advising to make more mistakes translates into advising to depend more on luck.
3. There has to be a better way to learning more :) Like making only 'pardonable' mistakes. Now go figure.