As far as you are human, there are bound to be mistakes in our everyday lives including the ones you are not conscious of. Even the best AI machine we humans have programmed so far still have a good number of bugs that needs to be fixed and updated. After the end of this podcast episodes, you will know when to take the risk of being wrong to try and when it’s advisable to learn from the failures you have been reading on social media, blog posts or you’ve been seeing.
Socrates once said, “The unexamined life is not worth living”. When you get something done yourself irrespective of whether you succeed or not, you create a much faster learning curve.
Learning from our mistakes also entails that we will also learn from the feeling of making the mistake. Some good instances are making a mistake at workplace and getting fired or failing an exam and receiving a poor grade. While learning how to get back on track, you will have to learn how also learn how to deal with the feeling of disappointment. Such feeling would not exist from listening to someone else’s experience. Sometimes learning to deal with these emotions associated with making a mistake is also as important as the mistake, if not more.
There are scenarios where learning from another person’s mistake is a lot better than making those mistakes ourselves. I will give you an instance and it’s a personal story.
I started my financial journey learning about cryptocurrencies when I heard about the likes of bitcoin and other top cryptocurrencies newly. My foundation was not really solid because I did not have any mentor to guide me or experienced personnel to ask questions that time for any step I wanted to take. So I made some mistakes in investing on scam sites and ended up losing some good money. So I can now spot out that mistake to newbies who wants to venture into cryptocurrency. In this case, it is advisable to apply wisdom by just reading about the mistakes or listening to the people that made these errors.
Everybody makes mistakes. Acknowledging a mistake is the hardest part and this is absent when we observe the mistake of others. Failure to learn from your mistakes sentences you to a lifetime of repeated failures. As for me, I see failure as a lesson for any future attempt and it is part of the process. I believe that it is possible to learn from our mistakes and from that of others and how we learn from our mistakes will determine our self-improvement.
