Why Should People Learn from Mistakes

Why Should People Learn From Mistakes

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A mistake can be an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness or insufficient knowledge. This however may range depending on the context where an action is rated as a mistake. Making mistakes is common in much of our live experience and its outcome makes a difference in most situations. There is a lot to learn from the mistakes we encounter in our daily activities and most of them have impacted us positively. Mistakes are thus a source of life lessons, discoveries, growth and a way to overcome fear.

One should not avoid tasks for fear of making mistakes and they are therefore valuable lessons. By making mistakes, people will in fact learn valuable life lessons and will become happy learners. There is so much we can all learn from our mistakes, and the moment we see them as lessons rather than mistakes, we will no longer have this crazy fear of encountering them along the journey.“Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. “Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.” (Al Franken, n.d). This in much insists on why we should learn from mistakes.

Serious discoveries in the world today are as a result of mistakes. It is very important to note that great inventors such as Sir Fleming discovered penicillin out of mistake. He noticed that a contaminated Petri dish he had discarded contained a mold that was dissolving all the bacteria around it (Krueger, 2010). When he grew the mold by itself, he learned that it contained a powerful antibiotic, penicillin. That is why in every mistake that we make, we discover more and more about ourselves, about who we are, about our limits, about our capabilities, about what we can and cannot do. They help us to be more compassionate and more tolerant with...