Mistakes II.

Even an elephant slips.

As a proposal for healthy attitudes towards mistakes, they should be conceived as possibilities that can happen to everyone, even the most specialized individuals.

- The best hunter loses a hare.

- Even the best writer makes a mistake.

- Even the best cook burns the beans.

- Mistakes are part of life.

Seeing them as opportunities to learn and improve as a person.

- Mistakes today, experience tomorrow.

- Experience is the fruit of the tree of errors.

- If I eliminated all the mistakes from my past, I would be erasing all the wisdom of my present.

- Mistakes help you grow; remember that to learn to walk, you must suffer many falls.

Regarding past mistakes, it is important to accept them and draw the necessary conclusions without wasting time on regrets that prevent focusing on the future.

- Accepting mistakes is a significant step on the path of learning.

- Don’t waste time dwelling on past mistakes; learn from them and move forward.

Future mistakes should be avoided, especially those with irreversible, sometimes lethal consequences.

- If the mistake kills you, what does it teach you?

- Mistakes serve as lessons if their consequences are not disastrous.

But not all have the same destructive potential. Among the many others that sometimes only damage self-esteem, one must face the possibility of making them without constantly fearing mistakes.

- Constantly fearing mistakes is being afraid of life.

- Life doesn’t come with instructions; you live, you make mistakes, and you learn.

- The one who walks and falls but gets up advances more than the one who doesn’t move for fear of falling.

- Don’t miss out on the joys of life for fear of making a mistake.

And something that crowns the learning from mistakes is avoiding repeating them.

- Mistakes are for learning, not for repeating.

- If you’re not making any mistakes, you’re not innovating. If you’re making the same mistakes, you’re not learning.

- Be humble to admit mistakes, intelligent to learn from them, and mature to correct them.

There are several causes for persisting in mistakes, including: acquiring incorrect habits related to problem-solving and achieving certain goals, making it more comfortable to persist in familiar behavior rather than changing it.

- Habit is second nature.

Family education that indulges desires and always fulfills the individual’s will, resulting in persisting in mistakes as a willful act driven by “I want it to be this way.”

- A mother who indulges fattens a snake.

- An overly indulgent mother is a very harmful mother.

Lack of knowledge of other ways to achieve goals or that these should be rethought.

- Ignorance defeats one in the struggle.

Intense emotional states that prevent thinking clearly and realizing the mistake.

- Passion blinds reason.

- When passions blind, reasoning is unnecessary.

Specific fear of change and the new, making one prefer to stay in a precarious situation that is well-known and provides some security rather than deciding to change and face the risks that any change entails.

- If you fear change, you cannot grow.

- If you close the door to mistakes, truth and personal growth will also stay outside.

After investing much time, effort, or other resources in achieving a goal, one might continue persisting in the mistake almost as a tribute to the same.

- Sacrifices bind.

- Stumbling is not bad, getting attached to the stone is.

- Repeating a mistake willingly is being foolish for pleasure.

Due to arrogance, one might not acknowledge being wrong even when fully aware of the mistake.

- Arrogance never says, “I was wrong.”

- No one is always right.

- Stop insisting on always being right, and you will make fewer mistakes.

The individual may find some result of persisting in the mistake very attractive, such as avoiding responsibilities or gaining affection and attention from family and friends, which they would have to renounce or receive less of if they rectified.

- He who dies for his pleasure even licks the yoke.

- He who dies for his pleasure finds even the ground sweet.

- He who dies for his pleasure finds death sweet as glory.

- He who dies for his pleasure, let death taste like coconut candy.

- Each one fattens to their liking.

- Enjoyed pain does not itch, and if it does, it does not bother.

Psychological rigidity due to some biological damage to the brain or its coverings and mixed causes involving more than one of the previously explained factors.

Regardless of the cause of persisting in the mistake, it always brings bad consequences.

FINAL CONSIDERATIONS

Properly managing mistakes involves recognizing them as a natural part of human existence and viewing them as opportunities to learn and improve as a person. It is essential to accept past mistakes, learn from them, and avoid wasting time on regrets that hinder future planning. It is also crucial to prevent mistakes, especially those with serious consequences, and to overcome the causes of persistent repetition of these.

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