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Not necessarily, but could be.

Have you heard of brainstorming? The worst thing you could do is to ban mistakes.

Innovation is doing something that hasn't been done before. Inevitably that leads to mistakes.

Being sloppy also leads to mistakes.

Presence of mistakes doesn't tell you much. But lack of them tells a lot.

If all your experiments are successful, it doesn't mean you're a genius. It means you're experimenting too slow.



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