The power of loving your mistakes
Getting something wrong is the best way to learn - yes, you read that right. It may not be the most comfortable or intuitive idea or thought as you frantically prep for exams and work, but research now supports the theory that the more mistakes you make, the better you are learning. Learning and growth in one's life, either personal or professional, is an inevitable, and ongoing process from the very first second to the last in our lives. Trial-and-error learning involves learning from consequences of one's behavior. Some of the consequences will be mistakes. It is also logically possible to learn from others' mistakes, provided one knows the constituent inputs that led to a given mistake - and that is as well part, an important part of team play and society - but we have to make mistakes on our own. Look at ourselves and say again and again it is OK to make mistakes. I have made such a lot of mistakes throughout my life. Some of those mistakes were caused by me not knowin...