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You hear it often in conversation.\u00a0 People are talking, relating the story of the latest disaster.\u00a0 Somewhere within it, you\u2019ll hear this phrase, \u201cWell, we all make mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\nYou hear it often in conversation.\u00a0 People are talking, relating the story of the latest disaster.\u00a0 Somewhere within it, you\u2019ll hear this phrase, \u201cWell, we all make mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n
And that would be true, but not all mistakes weigh the same<\/strong>.\u00a0 For example, adultery is not a mistake.\u00a0 It\u2019s a sin.\u00a0 It\u2019s a breach of trust.\u00a0 It is something that you did that\u2019s contrary to everything you\u2019re supposed to be.\u00a0 It is like throwing a nuclear bomb into your marriage.\u00a0 Addressing adultery as a mistake is crude and shows that you have no idea of the new normal you have just created.<\/p>\n Putting your GPS up in your window, typing in your destination, following it to the letter, you can wind up almost driving into a river; that\u2019s a mistake<\/em>.\u00a0 Investing in something you thought would go up, buying a house you thought would appreciate but didn\u2019t; that\u2019s a mistake. I thought about that and for a moment and dared I would be the exception to the rule, but I wasn\u2019t.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t have the competency to ride a road bike with its thin tires<\/strong>, multiple gears, and most importantly, pedals in which your feet are semi-permanently fastened.\u00a0 I have fallen.\u00a0 I have fallen more than once.\u00a0 It hurts.\u00a0 Most of all, it\u2019s embarrassing because there is no graceful way to fall.\u00a0 But guess what, I don\u2019t fall near as often a I used to, because I am getting used to the bike, to my weight, and how to balance it, how to anticipate and respond to certain situations.\u00a0 I am falling less. My mistakes not only are painful enough that I don\u2019t want to repeat them, but have given me valuable feedback and information in order to make course corrections. So ask yourself when you are about ready to do something in which you might fail.\u00a0 Will I fail because of character?\u00a0 That\u2019s unacceptable because you are doing something that goes against your belief system, your values.\u00a0 Stop, turn around, and go back home.\u00a0 Can I make the mistake because I lack the information or the skill, but it\u2019s worth doing anyway because the pay-off is off the charts?\u00a0 Then by all means, don\u2019t be afraid to make a mistake of competency. <\/strong> You can learn from your mistakes and get smarter and try again at a better place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You hear it often in conversation.\u00a0 People are talking, relating the story of the latest disaster.\u00a0 Somewhere within it, you\u2019ll hear this phrase, \u201cWell, we all make mistakes.\u201d And that would be true, but not all mistakes weigh the same.\u00a0 For example, adultery is not a mistake.\u00a0 It\u2019s a sin.\u00a0 It\u2019s a breach of trust.\u00a0 … Continue reading “Not All Mistakes are Created Equal”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nSo mistakes come in two kinds: mistakes of competence, and mistakes of character<\/strong>.\u00a0 Competency mistakes do help us if we indeed learn from them.\u00a0 I\u2019ve learned how to ride a motorcycle by making mistakes.\u00a0 I\u2019ve learned how to be a cyclist by making mistakes.\u00a0 The day I bought my cycle the salesman said, \u201cYou do know there are only two kinds of cyclists.\u201d\u00a0 I said, \u201cNo, what are they?.\u201d\u00a0 He said, \u201cThose who have fallen, and those who will.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\nMistakes of character are about 50\/50<\/strong>.\u00a0 About 50% never learn from them and never recover from them.\u00a0 The other 50% learn and recover, but is a long, expensive, and painful process.<\/p>\n