Make Mistakes.. Learn and Move on.

To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature - Plutarch (Greek philosopher)

In my last meditation session, I was reflecting on mistakes; especially the ones I have made this year. The list was extensive but it put a smile on my face. You see, Life is about making mistakes. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes, but more importantly don’t be afraid to make a mistake twice. Nobody learns anything by doing it once; people learn things by having that scenario occur over and over again. 

It’s like trying to learn the lyrics of an Eminem song by listening to it once. But when you listen to the same song a couple more times, you find yourself subconsciously singing the song. My point is, at times you may have to repeat somethings over and over again until you internalize that lesson. And the same thing goes for mistakes; you’re going to have to make the same mistake many times over to learn from it.

You are not going to learn from your mistakes the first time, you are going to have to make them a couple times, but make them quickly and then eventually own those mistakes and stop making them, and move on to new ones.

You should be comfortable making mistakes, embrace making mistakes, make mistakes as quickly as possible, just enough times to never repeat them anymore and then move on to new mistakes.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes – Oscar Wilde