What Does “Learning from Mistakes” Mean? Principles for Benefiting from Them

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AVAlexander VolchekLearning from mistakesAcceptanceF/Friend / friendsCouples and healthy relationshipsLove, help, and rescuing others

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• 00:00The benefits of mistakes: reflections on how mistakes contribute to personal growth and development, including their effect on self-esteem and pride.
• 00:03:22Why is it important to make mistakes? On an action that will lead to a useful result
• 07:39How we perceive mistakes and their causes
• 09:17People who do NOT learn from their mistakes
• 13:44What to do: how to draw benefits and lessons from your mistakes

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• 00:03

  For example, why can Apple make mistakes and release something of poor quality, while I, as a person, can't make mistakes or do something poorly because I'll be criticized?

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• 04:37

  After all, it's important to learn from your own mistakes, for example, or to learn to observe mistakes, so you need to keep looking at the reason for that question and the truth behind it.

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• 07:29

  We could launch a whole philosophical discussion and say it was useful in my life because it taught me to live in a certain way and go through certain events.

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• 07:44

  No, I'd happily erase the whole thing so I wouldn't have a problem with my arm.

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• 08:12

  There's a reason this event happened, and that reason goes much deeper than my running the wrong way, especially since it's stayed with me throughout my life—my entire life.

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• 11:49

  After all, it's much better to say to yourself, “I'm simply that kind of person. I was born with these causes, and effects will unfold in my life that will make me a very wealthy person.”

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• 12:08

  To me, that's a more pleasant chain of cause and effect than “I was beaten and went hungry as a child, and my parents were alcoholics, so I became wealthy.”

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• 13:39

  I made a mistake. I married the wrong woman, so I'll have a new wife.

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• 14:17

  Looking at myself from the outside, without attachment to myself. Because it's easy for us to criticize, assess, and judge another person, and hard when others do it to us, especially when we become defensive.

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• 16:12

  When I say “whatever happens,” I mean whether I do bad things or very good, right things, and whether my wife does bad things or very good, right things.

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