What are Mistakes? Are they valuable or destructive actions?

Do you think making mistakes is something that we should avoid?

Well, it all depends on how you look at your mistakes and whether you look at them as valuable actions and tools to help you achieve your goals or destructive weapons that destroy your ambitions and goals!

Imagine that you are traveling for the first time from city A to city B and there are many road signs along the way from city A to city B.You are not using any Global Positioning System like GARMIN or anything similar!

Will you ignore these road signs and do not pay any attention to them or you look at them very carefully and act according to the instructions they are giving to you? 

Yours are in the driver seat and the choice is yours!

Dr. Maxwell Maltz in his book ”Zero Resistance Living” explains the importance of making mistakes and why we should welcome them!

"All automatic guidance systems reach their goals by constantly correcting mistakes. A guided missile on its way to its target has sensors that detect when its off course. The guidance mechanism then makes the necessary adjustment and proceeds. This is done thousands of times on its journey. The guided missile relies on this negative feedback to guide it to its destination. Without this negative feedback, a guided missile would actually not know where it was going and would never reach its target. The same is true for the human servo-mechanism. It is unfortunate that so many of us interpret mistakes as a failure and suffer feelings of frustration and discouragement when actually the mistakes we make are exactly the information that our servo-mechanism needs to make the necessary corrections to take us to our goal. What we call "mistakes" are actually valuable lessons for success. An important part of Psycho-Cybernetics* is learning to use mistakes creatively and to remove the negative feeling that mistakes cause"

Our mistakes are a very valuable feedback, road signs along the way to accomplishing our goals! We can ignore them and blame someone or something else if we did not reach our goals or we can welcome them, analyse them, learn from them and use them as valuable tools and assets on the road to accomplishing our goals!

Each one of us is the master and the driver of his own destiny and we have the choice!

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*Psycho-Cybernetics: is a science that is dedicated to human development problems.