Sunday, May 10, 2009

Dont Forget Your Mistakes

Its said, "Its human to Err".Correct.Agreed.But what if you commit the same error again and again over the time."Making mistakes is not bad but committing the same one again is".After all, how do we learn if we dont make mistakes.No one among us is Mr. Perfect.But learning from our mistakes is surely a path closer to that level."Failures are Stepping stones to Success".Failures are what result from our mistakes.Success is what is achieved by learning from those mistakes.After Thomas Alva Edison invented the bulb, one of the Journalists asked him, "You failed nearly 1000 times before finally coming up with this Revolutionary Invention.What did you learn from these attempts?".To this Edison wittily replied,"I learned that the Bulb could not be made by those 999 ways".There is a lot of wisdom in this.Dont forget the Failures and Errors that you make even in your everyday life.This will lay the foundation of your Great Successful life ahead.Never Forget your errors/failures/mistakes.Learn from them.Let me give you another example of our Living Legend, the Chess Champion, Vishwanathan Anand.Vishy as he is called by his admirers was quite impatient during his early days.It would be hard for him to wait for his Opponent to make a move once he himself had played his game.On one such ocassions, he lost the game.At that time, his mother told him that he had made mistakes during the game that laid to his defeat."Dont forget your mistakes",said his mother.Anand rushed to his room and jotted down the moves he had made and those his Opponent had made and the mistakes he had committed.He realised what mistake he had made and decided never to make them again.Since then it became his habit to jot down his moves and the mistakes committed and to never forget the Mistakes.This is what has made him into such a Great Personality and a World Champion in his own game.Same is applicable to us in our own Territories of work and effort.Make mistakes but dont forget them.This will add the Charm to your work and you will be Nonpareil.Its as simple as that.So Dont forget your mistakes!!!