Making "golden" Mistakes

By Evan Sanders


Fail forward rather than crumble to pieces.

Failure while tough at times, is one of our greatest chances to grow and elevate ourselves in our pursuit of achieving our goals and dreams. However there's another vital component to the equation of failure that we don't really cover that much.

This article is about the importance of making mistakes.

Making mistakes is part of life and good lord do we make al to of them. Fact is all of us have made numerous mistakes which become the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and disasters go side by side. Most of the time though our mistakes are on a much lesser scale. However, they are just as crucial to our growth and development as all out failure in becoming someone better.

While you can learn a whole lot from seeing things work you usually are going to learn the most from seeing things not work. Take Edison for example. Edison tried to invent the light bulb over 1,000 times and never succeeded. When he was asked what he learned from failing so much, he simply replied that he had found over a thousand ways not to make a light bulb. That's called learning from your mistakes.

What really made Edison a massive success is that he didn't let his mistakes or failures define who he was. He didn't allow them to make him a failure. Instead, he stayed determined on his path and ended up lighting the world up - quite literally.

We are going to mess up. We are going to snap and push people away, ask for things we presumed we wanted, and make bad calls that will end up doing some damage in our lives. But when we turn mistakes, which can often be fixed, into failures which take masses of superglue and duct tape to fix, things start to get messy.

So how can you avoid this?

Own it. Own your mistakes. This is when we truly learn. This is when we grow. It's one of the hardest things in the world to take a good hard look at yourself in the mirror and say, "I have done something wrong and I'm going to fix it. I have let myself down." But as hard as that is our owning up to mistakes is probably one of the most powerful things we possess.

We should expect better out of ourselves than to cower away by not taking responsibility. We created the problems now we have got to do what's critical to fix them. Take ownership. If you have hurt someone else then it is even more important to own up to what you have done and fix it. It doesn't matter how embarrassed you are or how scared you are, fix it.

Own your path.




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