Have you ever wondered why we make mistakes?
And often, why we seem to keep making the same mistakes?
A bunch of experienced teachers brainstormed on such questions, and here is just a small part of what they came up with –
- We limit our expectations by solely drawing upon the past
- This binds us to ONE route, or one right answer
- When – as is often the case – things do not turn out as expected, we continue to hammer our limited expectations so that we traverse the trodden road
- Why do we do this? Because, in so doing, we stay well within our comfort zone, in familiar domains and never venture into unknown territory
But mistakes are those signposts on the path that point towards adventure.
Towards untrodden beaches and yet-to-be climbed mountains.
And because there is a certain uniqueness in the mistakes that each one makes, they can even turn into pioneering pathways that we need to walk alone. But in cautiously walking only along grooved paths, we miss the glorious takeaways that an amble down new roads would have given us.
We didn’t make a mistake.
We missed the take…