The Value of Making Mistakes

As a child we are promoted to avoid mistakes. Long ago, this was a good survival strategy, and to some extent it worked for today. But not all mistakes are the same. Some are clearly life-threatening, others are speed bumps.

Until a while ago I worked for a fast growing company that provides short and clear corporate culture statements for new employees. One of the four or five points that it proposes is that if you recognize them, take responsibility and modify them, you can make a mistake. I remember being very surprised that the "rule" is black and white, but more importantly, companies are using this method to make mistakes! How to release!

Austell Communications created an environment that emphasizes and encourages innovation. Yes, what you tried will not always work, but if you go in the wrong direction, pay attention and correct the correct direction. Austell was acquired for $ 1.8 billion eight years after its establishment. Clearly, they did a lot of things!

If you can make a mistake, two things happen: 1) release people from excessive attention, thereby weakening creativity, innovation, and experimentation. And 2) If you do not experiment, people will know more than you know.

* Test some new things on a small scale. In marketing, it is common to run several small "pilot" programs in parallel to see which is the most effective.

* You can try the same thing again with a small adjustment, but please do not repeat the same mistake over and over again.

They interviewed because they succeeded, but they succeeded, even if everything was effective, they were trying to do new things.

We all make mistakes. The error is the reason we grow up - it is not related to making a mistake that there is no better word. This is frustrating and often painful to commit these mistakes, but in the end you will understand that the profits you get are more than damage. Every mistake you make or learn will bring new knowledge. It will be the key to making you smarter, stronger and ready for the future.

1) Emphasize the value of errors in learning services. If you ask them, most people will say they have learned more from the mistakes than they learned from success. If you do not make some mistakes, you can not deal with the challenge. Therefore, there are many opportunities to learn to celebrate mistakes in the classroom and at home. Explain that learning needs to go beyond comfort. As a teacher, when you introduce new topics or issues, tell the students that they should confuse and make a preliminary mistake. Otherwise, you need to raise the level of challenge to actually learn. . We point out interesting ways that people deal with the same problem and let students discuss their thoughts. Let their children of this week share their "best" mistakes and what they have learned with you (and do the same on their own). And incorporate humor into it

After making a bad decision, we really accept Gob and we regret our mistake. But this may be shortsighted. We often confuse the realized value with the anticipated value and derive incorrect lessons from our decision. This kind of confusion is very important for investment, diplomacy and even decision-making in everyday life. For the purposes of our discussion, the value of realization means to decide how the actual results actually are actually produced. Assuming long-term iterative decision-making, the expected value represents a value based on the probability of making decisions in making decisions.