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Why is it important to learn from your mistakes<\/a>? How does ego prevent you from evaluating your mistakes honestly and dispassionately?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making mistakes is a part of life and no one is immune to it. What matters is that you don’t miss out on the opportunity to turn your blunders into valuable life lessons and learn from your mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read about why it is important to learn from your mistakes, even when they don’t end up tripping you up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Why You Need to Learn From Your Mistakes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ego can prevent you from rising above your failures if it stops you from effectively examining what you did wrong. Your ego<\/a> wants to look only at what you did right, and therefore, makes it hard for you to take an honest look at your own actions and assess your mistakes. However, if you\u2019re unable to examine and learn from your mistakes, you\u2019ll repeat those same errors and won\u2019t be able to emerge from your failures with renewed insight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You need to examine your mistakes even when they don\u2019t end up tripping you up; sometimes things might work out for you despite the fact that you made poor choices. In these situations, it\u2019s tempting to ignore those poor choices and convince yourself that your success is well-earned, even though in truth you merely got lucky. But when things go well for you despite your mistakes, you need to honestly acknowledge the role luck played in your success, and work to correct your errors so they don\u2019t trip you up next time\u2014because luck will always run out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An example of correcting mistakes even when those mistakes worked out was the way the New England Patriots responded after they realized they had selected their star quarterback, Tom Brady, almost by accident. They picked Brady in the 6th round and the 199th pick of the draft in 2000, and they didn\u2019t play him until his second season, when he subbed for an injured starting quarterback. He went on to win the team six Super Bowl rings, setting a record.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite having successfully picked a legendary player, the team\u2019s management knew that they might have just as easily missed him, and that their success wasn\u2019t because of the wisdom of their choice. Instead of denying their error and letting their ego tell them that somehow they\u2019d had some insight when picking Brady, they acknowledged that their scouting processes had weaknesses. They then set about examining and improving those processes so as to not let this kind of close call happen again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this way, the team held themselves to a higher standard than the outcome<\/em> of their choices. They saw true success as getting the process<\/em> right, not just the results<\/em>. People are able to do this when they don\u2019t allow their ego to tell them to be satisfied with the success they currently have, since that success, if not based on solid ground, will prove temporary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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