Growing up, my mother and I had a few shared mantras, and one was about mistakes. “If you can’t make a mistake, you can’t make anything,” she’d say. It’s funny how words said to you as a young person stay with you the rest of your life. In this post, I have chosen three books that talk about taking chances. When you take a chance, if you’re doing it right, you make a lot of mistakes. A mistake can be missing a full week of an online class you’re taking. A mistake can be trusting someone and learning that they might not be so trustworthy. A mistake might be letting a fall dictate how you manage heights.