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9 Powerful Lessons We Can Learn From Our Mistakes
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Clarify what you really want
Noticing and admitting our mistakes helps us get in touch with our commitments--what we really want to be, do, and have.
Working on possible solutions, redefining what we want or...
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You can be flawed and be loved
People who love and care about us will stick with us through all our flaws and floundering. Our not so perfectness is what makes us unique and we are loved for it. So we should give our...
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Accept your fallibility
Facing mistakes often takes us straight to the heart of our fears. And when we experience and face those fears, they can disappear.
When we are stuck and admit that we can't do ...
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How to tell our truth
Our failures and limitations offer us opportunities to practice telling the truth.
Admitting the truth allows us to expand our knowledge of self - to know who we are. And thus, incre...
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What works and what doesn't
When we experience the consequences of mistakes, we get a clear message about which of our efforts are working -- and which are not.
Many times we can trace mistakes to recurrin...
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Take responsibility
Sometimes our instinctive reaction to a mistake is to shift blame elsewhere: "It's not my fault."
Taking responsibility for a failure may not be fun. But the act of doing so poi...
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Live fully
Our history does not have to predict our future. Many people, when faced with a big mistake, begin to pull back--to retreat.
Mistakes help us to remember that we are not content to p...
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Inspire others
They may be inspired when we are courageous and make our private struggles public. They might decide to live differently.
As parents, we can teach our children that it is OK to fail bec...
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Learning from mistakes
You can only learn from a mistake after you admit you've made it.
Don't start blaming other people (or the universe) for the things that go wrong, because you distance yourself from any possible lesson.
How we perceive failure
We see mistakes and failure as shameful things. And we usually identify with them:
If I fail a test, then I am a failure. If I make a mistake then I am a mistake.
Learning from mistakes
It requires three things:
- Putting yourself in situations where you can make interesting mistakes.
- Having the self-confidence to admit to them.
- Being courageous about making changes.
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Failure
Success is sought after by most, while failure is looked down upon, even seen as something shameful.
More than success, it is our failures, errors and rejections that provide us with better learnings, and pathways towards eventual success, if we study them.
The Ostrich Effect
Once we have invested our time, effort and resources in something, we tend to avoid correcting ourselves in real-time if we are off-track.
Inversely, when people engage in mental contrasting, anticipating the upcoming obstacles, they tend to succeed.
Failure Is A Goldmine
Sharing information on failure among peers means less work overall, and better success for the entire team, as team members do not have to reinvent the wheel by making the same mistake to learn from it.
People do not share failure as it hurts their self-esteem, but if we keep the personal equation aside, a lot can be gained from the collective knowledge of what didn’t work.
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Information that matches our beliefs
We surround ourselves with it: We tend to like people who think like us; if we agree with someone's beliefs, we're more likely to be friends with them.
This makes sense, but it means that we subconsciously begin to ignore or dismiss anything that threatens our world views
The "swimmer's body illusion"
It's a thinking mistake and it occurs when we confuse selection factors with results.
Professional swimmers don't have perfect bodies because they train extensively. Rather, they are good swimmers because of their physiques.
The sunk cost fallacy
It plays on this tendency of ours to emphasize loss over gain.
The term sunk cost refers to any cost that has been paid already and cannot be recovered. The reason we can't ignore the cost, even though it's already been paid, is that we're wired to feel loss far more strongly than gain.