12/12: Mistakes
Mistake: an error in action caused by insufficient knowledge or lack of understanding.
Why so embarrassed about making mistakes? It seems that we are not only ashamed of mistakes but go out of our way to avoid and hide them. If you really want to avoid mistakes, there is a solution that guarantees you make only one more mistake in your lifetime. You need not be embarrassed again.
In order to make mistakes you must push your knowledge and understanding beyond the boundaries of what you think you know. In other words, when you take risks you are more likely to make mistakes. Though many encourage risk (you know, the more you risk the greater the reward), it is fraught not only with a great likelihood of mistakes but with the possibility of downright failure.
Sure, we could try new things. We could approach a woman we think is beyond our reach. We could embark on a business venture where few have succeeded. We could write a book, build a house and/or have children. We could hike through an exotic, rebel infested jungle and come to an impassable river where we build a raft of bamboo to ride the river to civilization. We could get married, knowing the act generally leads to divorce. There is a lot we could do, but the likelihood is we will make mistakes embarking on any of these ventures. Actually, we are pretty much guaranteed to make mistakes.
Say nothing. Do nothing. Contemplate nothing. Stop all action and the mistakes will stop. Yes, that does mean your knowledge and experience will cease development, but you will stop making so damn many mistakes. Just sit and stare straight ahead and you will never again be lost, a clear mistake.
This is all possible, and you will have made only one mistake: the failure to live your life.
If you make the same mistake over and over, you are not paying attention, you are not learning. If you make mistakes again and again and they are new and different each time, you are not only learning from your mistakes but living. A life filled with mistakes, mistakes from which you have learned, is a life lived.
To be lost is a mistake, yet to be lost means you have ventured into the unknown. So go make a mistake, a new one because you were trying to do something, because you want to push the boundaries of your limitations.
Have a great mistake!
Why so embarrassed about making mistakes? It seems that we are not only ashamed of mistakes but go out of our way to avoid and hide them. If you really want to avoid mistakes, there is a solution that guarantees you make only one more mistake in your lifetime. You need not be embarrassed again.
In order to make mistakes you must push your knowledge and understanding beyond the boundaries of what you think you know. In other words, when you take risks you are more likely to make mistakes. Though many encourage risk (you know, the more you risk the greater the reward), it is fraught not only with a great likelihood of mistakes but with the possibility of downright failure.
Sure, we could try new things. We could approach a woman we think is beyond our reach. We could embark on a business venture where few have succeeded. We could write a book, build a house and/or have children. We could hike through an exotic, rebel infested jungle and come to an impassable river where we build a raft of bamboo to ride the river to civilization. We could get married, knowing the act generally leads to divorce. There is a lot we could do, but the likelihood is we will make mistakes embarking on any of these ventures. Actually, we are pretty much guaranteed to make mistakes.
Say nothing. Do nothing. Contemplate nothing. Stop all action and the mistakes will stop. Yes, that does mean your knowledge and experience will cease development, but you will stop making so damn many mistakes. Just sit and stare straight ahead and you will never again be lost, a clear mistake.
This is all possible, and you will have made only one mistake: the failure to live your life.
If you make the same mistake over and over, you are not paying attention, you are not learning. If you make mistakes again and again and they are new and different each time, you are not only learning from your mistakes but living. A life filled with mistakes, mistakes from which you have learned, is a life lived.
To be lost is a mistake, yet to be lost means you have ventured into the unknown. So go make a mistake, a new one because you were trying to do something, because you want to push the boundaries of your limitations.
Have a great mistake!
