40 Things You Learn From Making Mistakes
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Why Mistakes Feel Dangerous
- Our vulnerability. We have limited and fragile support systems. When those systems fail, people often lose their lives.
- Real dangers. Making mistakes can put us at the mercy of nature and its animal residents seeking a meal.
- Ignorance. Many cultures scapegoat someone whenever there is a failure of some kind.
- Order. Many societies punish those who do not conform to the prevailing orthodoxy and treat differences and non-conformity as a mistake.
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You Cannot Avoid Making Mistakes
Mistakes are really a demand for order and continuity. But the world and everything in it is constantly changing.
It is better to continually bend into this reality rather than fight every change we experience. Fighting it can cause us to make more mistakes.
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Benefits of Making Mistakes
- Mistakes point us to something we did not know
- Help us see what matters and what does not
- Inform us more about our values
- Teach us more about others
- Keep us connected to what works and what doesn’t work
- Remind us of our humanity
- Spur us to want to better work which helps us all
- Promote compassion for ourselves and others
- Help us to pace ourselves better
- Invite us to better choices
- Can suggest new options we had not considered
- Prompt us to learn more about ourselves
- Make us more humble
- Expose our true feelings
- Point us in a more creative direction
- Can hasten change
- Reveal our blind spots
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Reframe Reality
When we recognize the inevitability of mistakes as part of life, then we can relax more. In doing so we may make fewer of them.
Handling mistakes well can help you relax and enjoy all aspects of life more.
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