Do you learn from your mistakes or...
By msedge
@msedge (4011)
United States
August 25, 2008 11:28am CST
Do you have a cycle of making the same ones over and over?One experience builds on another and that is how life evolves. We should not simply "live and learn" but rather "live, learn, and improve." We all make mistakes in life.Examine some past failures and review where you went off track with your goal. Don't mistake failing with "I am a failure," as no one is perfect all the time. Take what you have learned and apply it to the next situation.
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@ellie333 (21016)
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25 Aug 08
Hi MsEdge, Yes I agree sometimes we have to make he same mistakes more than once to really learn the life lesson from them eh! Also I believe we have to live through certain situations to be able to have empathy and compassion towards others then experiencing if that makes sense. Ellie :D
@sutanhartanto (4122)
• Indonesia
25 Aug 08
hi msedge,
i agree with the 'live, learn and improve'. an experience is the best teacher. it's even no need to be always our own experiences. we can learn from other experiences and mistakes by reading books. the bulb factory learn from edison to make their products. so they don't need to make 1000 (or 10,000?) not fuctioning bulbs to produce the working one.
anyway, i usually learn and improve from my mistakes. one of the only mistakes i never learn so far is procrastination. i often get trouble because of postponing something, but still i delay and delay again. i need much more will power to control that.
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I used to be that way before just to make sure i am making the right decision but the more you delay things the more you confuse.And also its good to do things on time to prevent trouble
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@alokn99 (5717)
• India
25 Aug 08
They say history repeats itself. I think it applies a lot to us humans as well, atleast to the extent of situations that we go through. It's through our mistakes that we learn and the test for this is when we go through similar situations again. So if we have not learnt and improved we will fall again.
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@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
27 Oct 09
i always learn from my mistakes. For me it would be pointless if I kept making the same old mistakes again and again. I find myself extremely intolerent of people who do so. For me the point of mistakes is to learn. Why would someone want to continue to make the same old errors again and again and again?
