Mistakes

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. "
George Bernard Shaw

Mistakes. The very word is likely to strike fear into our hearts. How difficult it is to admit that we made a mistake. How ashamed and embarrassed we feel. We feel like we have failed.

The truth is that the more mistakes we make, the more successful we are. The only way to avoid making mistakes is to do nothing, and if you do nothing you are not really living and certainly not growing. The more you are working towards acheiving a goal, the more mistakes you will make. It's part of being human, and nothing to be ashamed of.

Mistakes are nothing more than an opportunity to learn something about what doesn't work. If you learn the lesson, you will have a better idea of what to try next time. Life is a big experiment. The only way to find out what works sometimes, is to eliminate everything that doesn't work (in other words to make lots of mistakes).

A final thing to consider is that sometimes when you make a mistake while trying to do one thing, it is a useful discovery in trying to solve another problem. Lots of useful inventions came from mistakes that people made trying to create something else.

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