Dinesh Kamath's Editorial 'Learn from mistakes' that was published in Newsband

Learn from mistakes

Everyone makes mistakes. But an ideal person is one who learns from his mistakes or rectifies the mistakes. Many a time mistakes prove to be blessing in disguise. Many people managed to reach the peak of their careers only due to some mistake or the other they had committed and rectified or learnt from while pursuing their profession.

Children are prone to make many mistakes while learning to read, write or paint. But we don't give it a second thought because we know that through their mistakes they will learn and eventually master what they're trying to do. Adults should learn from such children. They should not be so hard on themselves. They should forgive themselves when they make mistakes and look forward to gaining from those mistakes.

If we wouldn't make mistakes we would never learn anything, and we wouldn't grow any smarter nor wiser. Mistakes can hurt, but if we don't learn from the mistake we've made, the pain we've suffered from it has been for nothing. There are some people who make the same mistake over and over again until the consequences hurt so much that they finally learn from it. It's the very reason why mistakes hurt, so that we do learn from them and don't make them repeatedly.

To learn from a mistake, we first have to own it, and this is where many people fail, because they often blame someone else for their mistake.

The problem with blaming other people for our mistake is that we will still suffer the pain and consequences of our mistake, but won't learn from it, and so we'll keep making the same mistake again.

Every human being errs. But human being is one entity who possesses the power of learning from mistakes. Hence you should transform the mistake into blessings. Once you've chosen a mistake to magically transform into blessings, look for the things to be grateful for. Ask yourself: What did I learn from the mistake? What are the good things that came out of the mistake?

This is how you make the best of your mistakes. So learn from every mistake that you commit.