There is a pervasive myth that states "we learn more from our mistakes [failures] than anything else". This is pure drivel. More than that it is dangerous thinking for those who seek to improve, change, or lift their performances [see photo].
The reality is that there is one essential rule of change. You learn most from your own and others' success. Get that simple message and you will change who you are; and, who you can become. However if you maintain the mantra that you learn most from mistakes and failure then you will slide backwards and ultimately experience declines in performance.
If you work with people [colleagues, clients, customers, etc] who focus on the negatives associated with mistakes, and failure, you must move on from where you are or you will stagnate. Ultimately stagnation is the outcome for all those who learn from their own and others' mistakes because in the end they do not and can not improve their performances.
When you make a mistake, or fail, your immediate task is to learn all that you can from those around you who have succeeded in a similar, or like, circumstances.
Good luck to you if you believe in the myth of learning from mistakes and failures. Of course those of you who learn from your own and others' successes you do not, and will not, need good luck....
Richard.
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