How to turn mistakes into personal profit

How to Turn Mistakes Into Personal Profit

Copyright (c) 2009 Alan Gillies

All of us make mistakes, don’t we? Whether these mistakes are huge or little, we still have no option but to make all sorts of decisions in our life every day, and it’s very probable that some of these decisions — not being ideal, won’t result in what we desire. It’s a part of human nature to make mistakes, but the best aspect of this is that all of these mistakes will at some point in time lead to a massive step forward toward success.

Success isn’t just a matter of being perfect in everything you do — as perfection comes only from time and experience. How can you differentiate a wrong decision from a right one without knowing what is right and what is wrong? As rightly said by Fred Shero, «Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire».

If you are not making mistakes, it may be that you’re playing on the safe side and not taking any risks. In every mistake you make, there’s a hidden lesson. You’ll end up learning many things from those mistakes, and the next time you arrive at a similar situation or problem — you won’t repeat the earlier actions, and perhaps you’ll even make a perfect decision which will lead to extraordinarily fruitful results.

It is a famous saying that those who have not experienced failure can never know how sweet the taste of success is. If you always succeed easily, then you will never be able to prepare yourself to face the inevitable mistakes and failures. Your strength in overcoming mistakes can make you a role model in the eyes of others who want to learn from your experience, so they can then deal with situations in the same successful manner.

In previous times, there have been quite a few successful inventions which were much more than brief thoughts. Those inventions appeared after considering a great many alternatives and choosing the best from all of them. Many experiments have been done to verify the viability of each of the alternatives, and quite a bit of money and effort was spent to figure out the best solutions, but that doesn’t mean that the expense invested into the experiments got wasted. A great deal of knowledge and experience was gained from those experiments, and all of this was then utilised in the refinement of the final experiments done at later stages.

So, now what do you think, aren’t mistakes an essential aspect of success? Mistakes can happen anywhere and at any time, and it’s a fundamental part of human behaviour to make mistakes. The key here is to strive to deal with the mistakes in a positive manner and always try to learn something new from each one of them.