Most people I know are brought up in an environment wherein doing the “right thing” is highly encouraged. Furthermore, they are frowned upon when they make mistakes. On the other hand, I was raised by my family to learn from my mistakes. In other words, they do not look down on me when I do something wrong. Rather, they ask me the question “what went wrong?” and allow me to analyze the things I did and what could have I done to make it better.Which is better? I don’t think I’m in the place to judge which method is best as there will always be grey areas when it comes to matters like this. However, allow me to speak from my experience…
Oftentimes, I am asked by friends to teach them stuff about the computer – from basic to advanced. There are also times when I teach a group of people and it is during these teaching endeavors that I noticed one thing. The slow learners are often those who are afraid of making mistakes. They attempt to “do things right” the first time they do it. While I do admire their approach to doing things, I just don’t think that it’s realistic and healthy for learning. In fact, their being the slow learners is a monumental fact that being afraid to make mistakes results to them being slow learners. They don’t want to experiment and they don’t want to try. They’d rather be spoonfed the exact steps to do things which oftentimes results to them forgetting a single step or more in the process thereby causing them to end up with nothing in the end.
What about the fast learners? How do they do it? The answer is simple. They do exactly the opposite of what the slow learners do. The fast learners would “experiment” doing something instead of raising their hands and asking me how to do it. They have enough courage to try out different things – even things that are not being taught to them yet. As a result, they spend most of their time understanding the process instead of just memorizing the steps.
But who makes more trouble? I have to admit one thing - I fear the moment when I see a fast learners raise their hands because when they do it is most likely that they really screwed something up. Is it bad? I don’t think so. I myself broke a few computers while learning - I reformatted an entire harddrive, I ruined a floppy drive, I burned a motherboard and so on… but instead of feeling bad about it, I’d just add the experience to my “Be careful next time” or “Don’t do this again” list. Costly indeed but I think learning from experience is priceless. Even better, each time I make a mistake, I know I am one mistake less towards success.
So if you see yourself as someone who is afraid of making mistakes or even afraid to try, I tell you this – don’t be afraid to try. Everybody is bound to make mistakes and doing something wrong doesn’t make you a lesser person. In fact, the successful are most likely to have made more mistakes in their past than the unsuccessful.
Lastly, before people say that I advocate making mistakes, I just want to clarify that doing mistakes is not a good thing. However, I’d rather make a thousand mistakes than not trying at all. It’s merely how you treat your experience that eventually defines whether or not you will become successful.
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