We all make mistakes, not just humans, but also animals, birds and now - machines too! We all go through some kind of learning process. Living beings go through natural learning and computers go through artificial machine learning, this is a process.
Make a mistake → Learn from it → Improve → Make a new mistake.
This keeps happening, so don't get overwhelmed because of a mistake, but make sure you improve the next time. Here are some steps which you should definitely follow and keep in mind, followed by some quotes on mistakes.
Accepting mistakes gracefully
Points to remember if you make mistakes and are too tensed about it:
Make mistakes, it's okay:
Making a mistake is okay, celebrate! Yes, you read it right. Celebrate your mistake because this is a great opportunity to learn something new!
If you made a mistake, maybe your work will go wrong, maybe you'll feel bad about it. But, at least you know you made a mistake and you found out the wrong way to do what you were doing.
Accept your mistake:
Okay, so you have made a mistake, fine. Now accept it.
Don't feel shy. Don't take it egoistically. Accept it. There's no harm in doing so.
Always remember - you aren't proved to be inferior if you accept your mistake
Accepting your mistake is the first step toward learning. So once you accept, just be happy for yourself, because you've already started your learning phase!
If you made a mistake, maybe your work will go wrong, maybe you'll feel bad about it. But, at least you know you made a mistake and you found out the wrong way to do what you were doing.
Accept your mistake:
Excellent, now you know your mistake and you've even accepted it, great job!
The next and the last step - just move on! Enjoy your life. Keep learning, keep improving, make yourself and your personality better than the best in the world.
Examples of mistakes in daily life and how to improve them
Sent an email, forgot attaching the document: Never mind, accept, keep in mind to recheck your email before sending, move on.
You were walking and you pushed an old lady accidentally: Accept that it was your fault. Come on, you can't be walking in a public space while scrolling reels! You can easily say that the lady should've seen you walking, but it's your responsibility as well to see to it that you don't harm anyone just because of lack of attention.
Quotes by legends on mistakes
Have a look what legends are saying about mistakes. Remember, even legends have made many mistakes, but they're legends only because they learnt from them!
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. - George Bernard Shaw
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. - Bruce Lee
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. - Confucius
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless its a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. - Al Franken
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. - Oscar Wilde
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. - Elbert Hubbard