If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?

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   ChilliWillyposted 14 years ago

   If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?

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   prettydarkhorseposted 14 years ago

   because some mistakes hurt specially if it concerns our emotions

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   Eliyanaposted 14 years ago

   well from my personal view i think we just  cant bear the same pain again...or maybe we want people to see us as a mistakeless person...like people have high hope on you so you dont want to lose those...i hope i answer your question

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   tysandersposted 14 years ago

   Because some mistakes come with huge consequences

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   ssaulposted 14 years ago

   we learn from our mistakes yes but it can also have detrimental consequences which may have irreparable damage to one self.

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   L.C. Smithposted 14 years ago

   Because although we learn from our mistakes, we don't enjoy the steps that must be taken to correct one.

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   Jarnposted 14 years ago

   Because learning hurts, and often we can't afford to make a mistake in the first place.

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   framistanposted 14 years ago

   Here is a really good quotation....
   
   
   "It is a great mistake never to commit one."  written by Ivan Panin
   
   Who was Ivan Panin??  He was an avid athiest from the Soviet Union back in the 1800's.  He did something very interesting. You might want to google "Ivan Panin" if you are curious.

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   Thesourceposted 14 years ago

   You can lean and recover from some mistakes.
   However, there are mistakes that can have catastrophic consequences. We should be afraid to make such mistakes.

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    FloBeposted 14 years ago

    People equate mistakes with failure and no one wants to be a failure. If we could shift our thinking from "failure" to learning from trial and error, we might be more willing to keep trying till we succeed. We think that a mistake means we should stop, when in actual fact all it has shown us is that the way we attempted to solve the problem didn't work and we need to move on to the next step toward a solution.

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    Lisa HWposted 14 years ago

    On the one hand, I'm pretty comfortable with, and not afraid of, making mistakes.  On the other hand, some mistakes can have serious consequences.
    
    I'm not sure we all learn from our mistakes, and I'm not any of us always learns learns all our mistakes.  Even when we do learn from them, though, what we learn isn't always the best thing to have learned.
    
    Personally, I have to say that I've done things/made choices that are mistake-free, and I've done things/made choices that involved having made a mistake.  I like mistake-free better.

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    mandyfposted 14 years ago

    afraid of being hurt, afraid of the change it will make in our lives. But from my point of view mistakes are lessons to be learned from and to grow from

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    Dave Mathewsposted 14 years ago

    sometimes the lessons that need to be learned are painfiul.

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