Celebrate when you make a mistake

I don't know how old you are or what kind of parents you have or how good or kind your teachers were, back in school, but, I do know that you've been told that you should not make mistakes and mistakes are bad things. You might as well remember being scolded or beaten up after you made a mistake. 

We have been fed from an early age that mistakes are bad and we should try our best to avoid them. But the thing is, you've been lied, mistakes are not bad. You see, we are not machines who are just programmed to do things flawlessly. We are humans who learn from mistakes. No one learns to walk without falling. Our brain learns from the mistakes much more quickly than it does merely from advice.

The invention of the light bulb by Edison was only successful after he failed a thousand times. He made 1000 faulty bulbs before he could make a perfect bulb. History is filled with examples that encourage you to make mistakes. Failure is the very first step towards success.

Go out there, make tons of mistakes, evaluate your steps, analyze what went wrong and try again. Maybe you'll succeed this time or maybe you'll again make a mistake, but there's one thing for sure that this time you won't make the same mistake. You might make a new mistake and when that does happen, repeat the process of evaluating and analyzing and trying again.

I've been teaching a six grader for almost a year now and he is a brilliant kid, he is a fast learner and is smart enough to think of a question, related to the topics I teach him, almost all the time. Why am I labeling him "smart"? It's because of a line that I read somewhere that said, a person who can give solution to your answer is not necessarily a smart person but, a person who asks a question is definitely one. Although he is a smart kid and an excellent student, yet he makes mistakes and whenever he makes a mistake I get happy.

Wait, don't be too quick to judge me. No, I'm not an evil teacher who just wants to find a new way to torture his student.

It is just that I want to teach him through his own mistakes, I see mistakes as a blessing. Mistakes show your progress. You see, when people make a mistake they tend to learn from it and chances are, they won't repeat the same mistake because now they know which path led them to the mistake so, they would try to avoid that path and would find a new one. This is the modus operandi of the phrase "Mistakes make a man perfect". The more a person practices, the more path he/she will discover that would lead him/her towards failure, and ultimately he/she would stumble upon a path that leads to nowhere but success.

Learning is a long process. When you try to learn something new, it takes time. If you dedicate yourself towards something, you'll eventually learn it but, it won't be free from mistakes, your whole process of learning will be filled with multiple mistakes. Whenever you try to learn something, you'll make mistakes, a lot of them but, that's completely fine because that is the best way to learn. So, the next time you make a mistake, don't be harsh on yourself, instead, enjoy the process of learning. Mistakes are proof that shows you're not in the same spot, it shows that you're moving, evolving, growing, and isn't that something worth celebrating?

So go out there and make as many mistakes as you can, because "Mistakes are the Stair to Success".