Galileo’s Greatest Mistake & Lessons Learned From It…

Everyone makes mistakes, even the greatest minds in the world. In this video, I showcase Galileo Galilei who is an astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath from Pisa. Galileo has been called the “father of observational astronomy”, the “father of modern physics”, the “father of the scientific method”, and the “father of modern science”. However, he, like all of us, has made mistakes and I point out one called his tidal theory (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/galileo-big-mistake/). Why am I doing this? To poke fun at him? To chop him down to size? No. My aim is for us to see that A) he’s human, just like the rest of us and therefore EACH of us is capable of greatness, B) mistakes can never define your legacy if you choose not to have them define you and C) the lessons you learn from mistakes can propel you towards that greatness you see.