As I was browsing over the internet looking for something inspiring to write as my final e journal post, I came across this quote, “Don’t let your mistakes define you. Use them as springboard to create a stronger, wiser and more powerful version of you”. It brings an encouraging message of optimism about the future. Something that everyone needs in this life. So, I decided to post in my Note Pad. While pondering on it, I came to a realized that mistakes are life’s feedback. It may arise from your experiences, your friends or yourself. Feedbacks are supposed to help you evaluate your learning using the three questions: Where am I going? Where I am now? and What’s my next step? Feedbacks are supposed to help you attain your learning objectives in as much as mistakes can help you attain your life’s goals, when appreciated and made used of- as springboard.
Dr. Neil Rosenthal, a licensed family and marriage therapist, wrote, in response to a client seeking advice about being embarrassed of the mistakes he had made in his life, “View your mistakes as valuable teachers. If you think about it, some of your greatest lessons have come from your mistake — that teaches you what you can and cannot do in the world. It’s how we grow, how we gain wisdom and maturity, how we acquire a better understanding of the way the world works, and it teaches us how we can and cannot behave. Mistakes give us feedback”
I know I made a lot of mistakes in my activities and assignments here in EDS 113, but that’s just part of learning. Like what the Teachers Pay Teachers say, “Mistakes are proof you are learning”.
References:
https://boldomatic.com/p/Ce7nTw/don-t-let-your-mistakes-define-you-use-them-as-a-springboard-to-create-a-stronge. Retrieved 3/18/19
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Mistakes-are-proof-you-are-learning-display-2979708.Retrieved 3/18/19
ROSENTHAL, N. (2014), Learn from your mistakes but don’t let them define you. Retrieved from https://www.denverpost.com/2015/10/14/learn-from-your-mistakes-but-dont-let-them-define-you/. Retrieved 3/18/19
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