Mistakes are not bad

Mistakes happen, they happen all they time. They will happen. It's an inevitable part of our life, we cannot avoid it, but we sure can learn something from it. I would quote Sir Einstein here 'Anyone who has never made any mistakes has never experienced anything new'. We are humans, humans are not perfect creations of god, we make mistakes, it's totally normal. We goof up. Some goof up's are really serious and some are not. But every goof up teaches us something or the other and makes us a even better person than yesterday.

Why Mistakes Feel Dangerous?

Mistakes often feel dangerous. Throughout human history, our errors have often been treated as dangerous for a variety of reasons:

• Our vulnerability. We have limited and fragile support systems. When those systems fail, people often lose their lives.
• Real dangers. Nature can be dangerous, and 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. Scapegoating can be serious and deadly.
• Order. Many societies punish those who do not conform to the prevailing orthodoxy and treat difference and non-conformity as a mistake. Even our brains flash an error message whenever we go against prevailing social norms according to research published in the Spero Forum.

We have a history of handling mistakes and failure in an unpleasant way. Since each of us carries our human history with us, it can be a challenge to overcome the fear of making mistakes.

If we can embrace the reality of mistakes, we can free ourselves to be more creative in our lives and dig up some interesting insights.

Why You Cannot Avoid Making Mistakes?

Many people operate under the notion that making mistakes is an aberration, a mistake if you will. You can call it perfectionism but it is a more substantial problem. It is really a demand for order and continuity.

When we think we can eliminate mistakes, we are often working from a perspective that sees the world as a fixed place.

The world, however, is not so obliging. Like it or not, the world, and everything in it, is constantly changing. Change is more constant and pervasive than we can see with our own eyes which is why we often miss it. Our bodies are constantly changing. The natural conditions of the earth change constantly as well. Everything, including economic and cultural systems have life cycles. Everything is in a constant state of flux.

We cannot see all of the changes going on around us since rates of change vary. Unfortunately, when we try to create a feeling of certainty and solidity in our lives or operate from the illusion of stability and order, we are fighting reality and our natural evolution which is built on adapting to change.

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. Finding the benefits in change can be useful and help us minimize unnecessary mistakes.

Mistakes are part of the trial and error, experimental nature of life. The more you adopt the experimental, evolutionary frame, the easier it becomes to handle mistakes.

Handling mistakes well can help you relax and enjoy all aspects of life more.

So, go on make lots of mistakes. Learn from them, cause later in life you will know that those were the mistakes that made you the person you are today.

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