How To Learn From Your Mistakes and Achieve Better

You can make mistakes. We cannot foretell the future, and it is unusual to know if a decision will be beneficial or terrible.

Sometimes we regret a decision instantly, but it benefits us later. This happens more often than you believe!

Despite being reminded that failures are formative, mistakes are demonised in our society. From those that reduce grades to those that damage our professional and romantic prospects and haunt us for years. Many avoid decision-making to avoid failure.

However, psychology and science concur that errors are vital, advance us, and have led to significant progress!

Enhance mental flexibility. Bad decisions make us feel guilty and blame ourselves. We say, “I should have done that,” knowing we can't change anything. In this case, you can try to modify things or wait for them to improve.

The human mind is wired to think negatively. Many errors end nicely, but we only remember the negative ones. However, many people have made errors that turned out well! It's about what?

Our minds have "cognitive distortions" that make us only see the bad repercussions of being wrong, not the favourable benefits. Beat ourselves, feel guilty... Jérôme Palazzolo, author of "I free myself from my phobias," says most of our mistakes benefit us in some way and few have major effects.

He says cognitive flexibility can be learnt and lets you step back when you're struggling and stay optimistic. When you make a bad mistake, feel guilty, and feel like you're going to hit a wall, say to yourself, "This is not how I imagined I would reach my goal, my path has deviated: and now what are my answers

Learning from mistakes—hard?
Certainly, but not impossible! We must remember that not everything goes as planned... To make mistakes is human, nothing more normal. It helps us avoid monotony.

Every success has failures! Additionally, did you know? That "error" comes from "to wander" proves that it's just life diversions. We grow by making mistakes, which helps us adapt and endure hardship.

Learning through experience and failure (we make a mistake and start again) involves procedural memory, while rote learning requires immediate working memory but does not require thinking and understanding. This memory helps us understand and reproduce reasoning and choose between options. Or to learn how to escape an unwanted circumstance.

Additionally, you can't learn something instantly! You must make mistakes. A choreography, music, lesson... We learn this way. Let's also remember that blunders have led to many scientific and geographical breakthroughs.

Gaston Bachelard, a philosopher, believed that only future experience could tell us if our decisions were right or wrong. Whether our intuition was right or wrong, we always eliminated a hypothesis, which is a tremendous improvement.

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