Why You Should Celebrate Your Mistakes

January 3, 2011 by linda556   Comments (0)

When you make a mistake, big or small, cherish it like it’s the most precious thing in the world. Because in some ways,Cheap UGGS, it is.Most of us feel bad when we make UGG Brookfield Boot  mistakes, beat ourselves up about it, feel like failures, get mad at ourselves.

And that’s only natural: most of us have been taught from a young age that mistakes are bad, that we should try to avoid UGG Tassel Shorts Boots  mistakes. We’ve been scolded when we make mistakes — at home, school and work. Maybe not always, but probably enough times to make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction.

Think about how we learn: we don’t just consume information about something and instantly know it or know how to do it. You don’t just read about painting, or writing,UGG Classic Camo boots, or computer programming, or baking, or playing the piano,Ugg Fluff Slippers, and know how to do them right away.That’s how we learn UGG Lo Pro Button Boot  as babies and toddlers, and how we learn as adults. Trial and error, learning something new from each error.

Instead,UGG 5859 Boots, you get information about something, from reading or from another person or from observing usually … then you construct a model in your mind … then you test it out by trying it in the real world … then you make mistakes … then you revise the model based on the results of your real-world experimentation … and repeat, making mistakes, learning from those mistakes, until you’ve pretty much learned how to do something.

Mistakes are how we learn to do something new — because if you succeed at something, it’s probably something you already knew how to do. You haven’t really grown much Ugg Delaine boots  from that success — at most it’s the last step on your journey, not the whole journey. Most of the journey was made up of mistakes, if it’s a good journey.

If you think about it that way,Ugg Classic Short Paisley, mistakes should be cherished and celebrated for being one of the most amazing things in the world: they make learning possible, they make growth and improvement possible.By trial and error — trying things, making mistakes, and learning UGG Women's Cayha   from those mistakes — we have figured out how to make electric light, to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, to fly.

Mistakes make walking possible for the smallest toddler, make speech possible, make works of genius possible.So if you value learning, if you value growing UGG Women's Cayha and improving, then you should value mistakes. They are amazing things that make a world of brilliance possible.So if you value learning, if you value growing and improving, then you should value mistakes. They are amazing things that make a world of brilliance possible.Yet without mistakes, we could not learn or grow.