Overcoming the Fear of Making Mistakes

If you want to succeed, then you have to be able to make mistakes. Mistakes are necessary for the learning experience. Although nobody likes making mistakes, they are necessary for growth and becoming a better person. Once we make mistakes, we can figure out what we did wrong and can fix our behavior. We need to force ourselves into action if we want to make mistakes. Studying and preparing is great but we need action if we want to see any progress. Too much studying and not enough action equals little results.

Studying and learning is great, but take into account the fact that it will take longer for you to become successful if you don’t take action.The brain is able to absorb staggering amounts of information but what good is that if you don’t use that? There is a phenonomon called Information Overload, that happens when you try to absorb too much information at once. You’ll become paralyzed and it will be very hard to extract the information when you most need it. Be careful. Research is needed but there is a point where it becomes too much.

It is perfectly natural to be afraid. However, you cannot let fear paralyze you. Learn to accept and then go past the fear. Imagine when you were younger and were learning to ride a bike. Did you learn by trying to ride it and keep falling off or did you read about it and then suddenly were able to ride it without getting on it? Life is the same way, if you want to do something, find something that you can do right now. Preparing and studying is fine as long as you do something else besides that.

Real life is very cruel but it is great for teaching you a lesson. Life will whip and beat you till you’re a pulp, having shown you powerful life lessons the hard way. But you’ll remember them far better, won’t you? Which is easier to remember, something that is told to you or something that happens to you first hand? Being told that smoking is bad or actually doing it and getting lung cancer? I’m pretty sure you’ll remember the latter more easily. Mistakes aren’t as bad as they seem anyway. Once you have made enough of them, it becomes easier.

Mistakes are a good thing because they tell you what works and what doesn’t. Quoting Thomas Edison, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” I’m pretty sure you won’t fail that much but if you do, more power to you for not being a quitter. It is all about the attitude. Let’s say that you are starting a business. Down the road, mistakes will be made but if you are willing to learn and look hard at what you did wrong, then you can improve and fix any problems. Refusing to see won’t help you though.

If you did listen to what you were doing wrong then you will run into a potential opportunity. Mistakes can be blessings in disguise but you won’t see it unless your eyes are open. Think of the big picture. Perhaps something that seems bad can turn out to be the greatest thing that ever happened to you. (Not always of course). Perhaps you got fired from your job, but you hated it anyway. Needing money, you end up creating your own business, which thrives and because of that, you achieve your wildest dreams that you could not go after while you had a job. If you were never fired, that never would have happened. Who knows the possibilities? A mistake turned out to make something unexpected, but desirable. What could you achieve if you knew it would always turn out great in the end?

On the plus side, if you make enough mistakes, then you can eventually become an expert. You’ll know what you can and cannot do, which you cannot learn from only studying. You will also learn to take mistakes as they come, knowing deep down that mistakes can be teachers. Great example of tough love. After awhile, mistakes would have helped you build up something wonderful in life, making you better at whatever you decided to go after. But if you never give up, you won’t ever see that point. Stay on the same path and then you may accomplish something great. Quoting Thomas Edison once more, “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Your attitude determines whether you are a winner or just a quitter. Don’t be afraid to ask yourself. “Which am I?”
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