She puts herself down before her audience even has a chance to applaud. I can do that myself. I know what I did was awful. Babies don't care. If all babies were afraid of looking funny, none of us would have learned to walk.
Some people see mistakes as a process of elimination.
Doctors have discovered cures for diseases from a series of mistakes. Some people even think that jazz is a series of musical mistakes. Our greatest discoveries have come through accidents. Now I'm not suggesting for a second that it's all right to go out and purposely do things that are wrong. Those aren't mistakes.