Why we make mistakes

by Belle Morte

There are many speculations on why it is that we make mistakes, however the favorite being the one that I will focus on today. Mistakes are made, so that we can learn from them (at least in my own humble opinion). They all...read more

by Amy Jones

Why do we make mistakes? Well, no one person is perfect. It is just life and the way we are. If no one made a single mistake, then how would we ever be able to learn lifes lessons? Our mistakes make us who we ar...read more

by Amanda Le Bas De Plumetot

We fell into water and learned to swim. Mistakes are a function of learning. The baby who gets up and then falls over just made a mistake. It made a walking mistake. It learned that if you get up you can fall over. ...read more

by Danette M. Scott

We make mistakes because we are imperfect human beings. We are not endowed with perfect intelligence, emotion or logic. Our bodies are not designed to last forever. The organs that are important to making decisions and jud...read more

by Georgia Stewart

We all sometimes make bad choices because the future is unknown and we don't usually realize that they aren't the best decisions at the time. If we could see the sometimes terrible outcomes we'd be equipped to choose the b...read more

by Patricia Coffman

Mistakes are included in the core curriculum for living. If we didn't make mistakes, we could never reap the benefits of learning from them. We would all be like robots, living our lives without the enrichment that learnin...read more

by Russell Dawson

We make mistakes because the outcome of any given action is unknowable. Every time we choose between "two roads diverging in a yellow wood" we can make predictions about what results will follow but never know how our cho...read more

by Margaret Rose Mauger

"Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom." (Phyllis Therous) Mistakes are a necessary ingredient in the pie called Life. The whole is the sum of its parts, and mistakes are merely a part of the who...read more

by Amanda Blake

Maybe once you have experienced someone abusing your trust, it's very hard to put yourself in the same position again. There's always the possibility that another person may hurt you in the same way, saying what they know ...read more

by Melody Wells

Why we make mistakes I don't know about everyone else but, I have made a lot of mistakes in my life. Some of them big and many small non the less mistakes. Making mistakes is easy much easier than being perfect (I don't...read more

by Sheena

We make mistakes because as free thinking human beings we want to explore new horizons and experience different things. Sometimes in so doing we are susceptible to making mistakes. Let me give you an example. It could b...read more

by misskitkat12

Why do we make mistakes? Although there is no definitive answer, I have my own opinion on why we, as people, continuously make mistakes. The fact is, is that we are humans and we are all hopelessly flawed. Mistakes are ...read more

by Das Govind

Mistakes are actually very good teachers. The mistakes that we make in our lifetime are there to guide and set us on the right path. Mistakes are the universe's way of telling us to take an alternative path, as the current...read more

by Vanessa T

I don't remember my first mistake, but I definitely had a first and will have a last. Whether mistakes result from moral flaws or mere human impulses, they will always occur. Growing up entails paying more attention to mis...read more

by Kirk Larson

Mistakes, a question, these are relative to being human. Yet being human is still an unanswered question itself. To make a mistake is arguably subjective because there are those that are obvious, and then there are those t...read more

by Robert Cole

We have all made mistakes. Mistakes are part of learning and indeed are often necessary for our survival. When you were very young you learnt to walk. In doing so you fell many times. You were very unsteady on your feet...read more

by Marlene Amero

We all at one time or another make mistakes. They can be small or large. They can hurt, disappoint, cause misunderstandings, heartaches and sorrow. A wrong action can lead to danger, remorse, unhappiness, fear, anger, and ...read more

by Richard Serra

Mistakes are a normal part of our daily lives, and it is important we recognize what we did that caused us to make those mistakes in order to learn and grow from them. Without mistakes, there is no possible way of learnin...read more

by Pamela Kay

How often have you heard these phrases start a sentence; "If I had known", "Well I never expected" or "What was I thinking"? These three phrases are a clue to why we make mistakes, which like accidents, are things we did n...read more

by Lissa Tuma

Life is about learning, and how does one learn except by making mistakes. Let's face it, you can not have a completely perfect life. Mistakes are the fundamental building blocks to success. Just as one can not have success...read more