The man was among the most powerful people in the universe. Even today, his wife rides on the tornado of popularity weaved by him. He was loved by all. He had the power, charm and suavity to influence probably anyone. And then! He stood accused at the center of a Sex Scandal with one of his interns, which he denied initially. All of a sudden; he started getting mocked, derided and became the butt of all the jokes worldwide. For several months, he remained quite a hot-topic of accusations and media speculations. Charges of a false testimony and his influencing the case led to the beginning of his impeachment, a formal procedure to de-throne a Public Official. But finally, he blew the lid off by admitting to the much talked-about affair in a Public address to the nation and apologized for the same. He could have easily gone ahead with a string of some more lies but that’s what separates a true leader from the herd. Some of you might have guessed it right - The name of the intern is Monica Lewinsky. The man being talked about is Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of United States of America and the husband of Hillary Clinton, a potential candidate to be the next US President.
If Salman Khan had admitted his fault of killing a person sleeping on footpath, then he might have saved his prestige from getting soiled and would have abstained from visiting the court for his bails. Confessing your fault in front of public needs generosity and humbleness and that is all.
Self-ego is the prime reason for not admitting the mistakes. The thought that one would be considered as a defaulter in front of public, abstain us from accepting our faults. Also, how would our closed ones react to it when they’ll get to know about this? This is reason, we keep running away from our mistakes, circumlocuting the facts and evidences and hide our faults.
Self-ego is the prime reason for not admitting the mistakes. The thought that one would be considered as a defaulter in front of public, abstain us from accepting our faults. Also, how would our closed ones react to it when they’ll get to know about this? This is reason, we keep running away from our mistakes, circumlocuting the facts and evidences and hide our faults.
My mother always used to say “Mistakes done first time are not the mistakes but the lesson for the next time, when repeated they are not mistakes, they are blunders.” It is important to learn from your previous mistake as those can help you becoming a more submissive and obedient person.
You can only learn from a mistake after you admit you’ve made it. As soon as you start blaming other people (or the universe itself) you distance yourself from any possible lesson. But if you courageously stand up and honestly say “This is my mistake and I am responsible” the possibilities for learning will move towards you. Admission of a mistake, even if only privately to yourself, makes learning possible by moving the focus away from blame assignment and towards understanding. Wise people admit their mistakes easily. They know progress accelerates when they do.
Learning from mistakes requires three things:
• Putting yourself in situations where you can make interesting mistakes
• Having the self-confidence to admit to them
• Being courageous about making changes
The more complicated the mistake you’ve made, the more patient you need to be. There’s nothing worse than waving around trying to fix something you don’t understand: you’ll always make things worse.
I remember as a kid when our beloved Atari 2600 game system started showing static on the screen during games. The solution my brother and I came up with? Smack the machine as hard as we could (A clear sign I had the intellect for management). Amazingly this worked for a while, but after weeks of regular beatings the delicate electronics eventually gave out. We were lazy, ignorant and impatient, and couldn’t see that our solution would work against us.
His e-commerce company, Alibaba, attracts 100 million shoppers a day. But before he was the richest person in China, Ma went through a lot of rejection. Once he ruled out college, Ma applied for 30 different jobs and got rejected. He went for a job with the police; they said, 'you're no good, he even went to KFC when it came to hiscity. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted. he was the only guy..."When Ma founded Alibaba in 1998, he was met with more obstacles.The brand didn't turn a profit for the first three years, and Ma had to get creative. One of the company's main challenges was that it had no way to do payments and no banks would work with him.Ma decided to start his own payment program called Alipay. The program transfers payments of different currencies between international buyers and sellers."So many people I talked to at that time about Alipay, they said, 'this is the stupidest idea you've ever had,'" he said. "I didn't care if it was stupid as long as people could use it."Today, 800 million people use Alipay and now Jack Ma is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world.
When such people can keep trying every possibility in their venture to raise from ashes then why do most of us give up as the biggest mistake of our lives and quit. The only thing required to keep moving and learning is never quit.
If you think not performing well in front of the audience is the biggest mistake of your life, then you are mistaken. If you think that you doubt your long lasting relationship for money, then it’s the biggest mistake of your life, then you are mistaken, if you think you can earn more money without working hard, then it’s the biggest mistake of the your life. If you think mistakes are meant to be made and continue committing them then it is the biggest mistake of your life. Last but not the least, committing mistakes is not a harm but not accepting them and learning from them is the biggest mistake.
-Shruti
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