How to become a more disciplined naturalist

[AdamWargon]

Barbara shared a great life lesson here, and I want to highlight it, in case somebody missed it:

@sedgequeen

My learning to ID better comes bits at a time . . . Keep going and try not to repeat mistakes too often. I say that as a person who makes lots of mistakes of every kind

@sedgequeen

Even intelligent, informed people are wrong sometimes, a hypothesis strongly supported by my 10,000 withdrawn identifications on iNaturalist.

No self-judgement. Continued execution, making mistakes, dusting yourself off, and continuously learning and trying and moving forward.