Regard Mistakes as Teachers, Not Judges

Dr Tae Yun Kim is a martial artist, an author, a speaker and much more. Here is an excerpt from her book, The Silent Master.

Regard Mistakes as Teachers, Not Judges

You can also use your will power to employ the second rule of mental conduct: Learn from your mistakes.

So often, when we do something that we believe is a mistake, we become fatalistic and give up our efforts. Instead of focusing on a new direction right away, we tend to sit around in gloom and doom criticizing ourselves. In this instance, we're using mistakes as excuses not to face up to fears and weaknesses. 

Rather than allowing your mistakes to be reasons for continuing failure, allow your mistakes to be used as learning feedback. In fact, mistakes are as real, valid, and viable as successes when you're growing and learning.

You make mistakes any time you do something new. If you already knew how to do something without making mistakes, it wouldn't be new! It would already be a habit. So let mistakes be friendly teachers, the fertilizer for growth.