Examples Of Making Mistakes

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” I agree with this statement, because everyone makes a mistake at least once in their life. All a mistake does is show that you are human. What matters is what you do with your mistake.

In reading "Mistakes were Made but Not by me," multiple accounts are given of traits exhibited by humans that are displayed subconsciously. The authors, Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, begin by defining these traits and give readers the actual terminology to these characteristics. With various examples being provided to the reading audience they are then able to make a clear correlation between the behaviors displayed and how they may impact not only themselves but others around them. "Mistakes were Made but Not by me" has a theme which is centralized around the two key facets which are cognitive dissonance and self- justification.

Instead we can focus on the reason why the person makes the error, and how to reduce the risk of that error to be happening again. Not only that, knowing that making error is humanist can create an environment where individuals are confident that they can report errors or close calls (“near-misses”) without fear of retribution CITATION. For example, if the hospital which the nurse who did a med error is having a culture of safety, the nurse would have no reason to fear of fault, shame, and discipline about the error. She instead should be comfortable to report the error right away to be taken care of, and let the hospital team analyzes the error and find out how to mitigate or prevent future

Another important thing is organization so you don’t lose things and keep important things in the places that they belong. I’ve learned that the hard way! I have spent a lot of time doing homework assignments, then misplaced them and was unable to turn them in. I also didn’t get 100% on my science binder since I couldn’t find some of my assignments and notes. I had a good talk with Mrs. Merolo and Fray about being organized. Mrs. Merolo helped me by giving me a folder where I could put my homework “to do” on one side and things to “turn in” on the other side. Fray taught me how to organize my assignments, quizzes, tests, bell work and notes in my binder, which has helped me to find my things when I need to study for quizzes and tests. I think I will be able to get better grades after this.

If you are anything of a Cleveland Browns fan, you understand the struggle of watching your team shoot themselves in the foot nearly every game. This Sunday against Pittsburgh wasn’t any different. One thing Cleveland is consistent in doing is making mistakes.

Walking through the streets of the United States you see a lot of different people. You see Mexicans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans and many more. When these people come to the United States they are looking for a better live. These people are running away from lack of resources, to unite their family again. They want a better economic prosperity and many other conflicts. But little do they know that the Unites States is as bad as their own. The difference is that the United States has more opportunity, holds a high prestige and can hide their mistakes easily. One example of were the Unites States fails the immigrants is the Criminal Justice System. The criminal justice system was design to keep the community safe. It also works on restoring and

ATTITUDE: Always have a positive attitude. Remember success is 10% ability and 90% attitude! If you think that you can achieve, then you can achieve.

My favorite mistake was having curiosity, the curiosity to experience something for the first time. Curiosity is a beautiful thing that can do great things or do things that can change your life. I have done a lot of mistakes that were caused by my urge to see what would happen if… or I wonder…. This particular mistake was just one that you can never really forget ,but if you did something would remind you. My mistake was having the curiosity of riding a roller coaster.

the likelihood of errors while avoiding the trap of focusing on mistakes by individuals” (AHRQ,

As an electrical engineer, my father often looks to take on problems that very few know how to solve. He has found that the fear of failure in people commonly conquers their ambition. It frequently suppresses a person from even attempting a challenge, and he or she yields. For my father, however, he has trained his mind to separate his fear of a problem from his actions. Where he recognizes his fear but momentarily silences it in order to accept a challenge. This mentality in his life has taught him to confront fear, divvy it up into micro fears through a plan, and then utilize them as motivation every day. Over time, as he slowly solves hard problems and experiences little euphoric feelings of success, these feelings begin to become addictive. This addiction builds upon itself, and gradually his battles with the prospect of failure have become easier and easier. He believes, in addition, that the sensation he feels from challenging himself and then accomplishing a challenge—despite his fears—plays a large role in helping him to ignore instantaneous feelings, such as drugs and alcohol, which in turn could short circuit his natural happiness.

Two different but similar forms of writing are able to be tied down into one general but specific category. In the book, Mistakes Were Made (but not by me), by Elliot Aronson and Carol Tavris, Aronson and Tavris commentates on events that people go through. The book is mainly about Elliot Aronson’s and Carol Tavris’ opinion on how people behave and should behave when caught in tough situations. Instead of focusing on one main character in the book, each section of the book illustrates a different person 's’ situation and that situation would correspond with a specific theme in the chapter. Throughout the book, Aronson and Tavris give us a broad idea of how some psychological thinking/processes comes into play, each psychological concept corresponds to a chapter or section in the book, these ideas are: confirmation bias, revision of memories, self-justification, pyramid of choice, cognitive dissonance, blind spots, closed loops, reducing cognitive dissonance, blaming, self-justification (for the greater good), and (sunk costs). Another form of writing, “Wrong Answer”, by Rachel Aviv, is an article focusing on the main idea of a school going through tough times and the outcome of the actions taken by the staff. The article revolves around Parks Middle School in Atlanta. The teachers and staff in Parks Middle School were caught cheating and changing the answers students submitted for standardized tests, and this little mess resulted in hundreds of teachers being laid off and

People of all ages, sizes, color, and different genders, do things routinely and correctly when they are working or maybe even when they are eating. Although, some people also make mistakes daily, we make them more often than not and sometimes they can be good things. We as people are only human, we all make mistakes and it is important to know that sometimes when we make mistakes, we can learn from them so we do not do them again, so we can make a better option, decision or choice when we do certain activities or things. We make mistakes so we can learn, and that is why it is okay for them to happen. I completely believe that making mistakes is the key to understanding and improving ourselves and society. A man named Lewis Thomas, who is a biologist, wrote about people and making mistakes.

Since 2000, out of all the fatal accidents aviation accidents, 75% of them were caused because of human error according to the NTSB. Human errors can occur in three different ways say Ramón L. Rivera. He states in the article, Managing Human Error, “1. A person intends to carry out an action, does so correctly, the action is appropriate, and the desired goal is achieved. No error has occurred. 2. A person intends to carry out an action, does so correctly, the action is inappropriate, and the desired goal is not achieved. An error has occurred. 3. A person intends to carry out an action, the action is appropriate, does it incorrectly, and the desired goal is not achieved. An error has occurred.” The easiest way to counter human error is through crew resource management. Crew resource management trains people to think outside the boxes and look at the problems in different ways. It takes daily procedures and show what the outcome is if certain action is taken.

A famous saying by Al Franken goes like “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.” I think mistakes are necessary. It shapes you to become a better, wiser and a stronger person who is prepared to face further challenges as well.

Good hard work goes a long way. From playing the piano I have learned that hard work can help you improve. When I am practicing I have to make sure that I put all of my effort into it or else I won’t be doing the best I can and learning from that. Thus I have to remember this so when something comes around I can work hard and do it right. This method will stick with me forever because anything that is worth doing is worth doing it right. I have used this throughout all of my life for school projects and when I practiced piano I can and will use this in school as I get older so that I can get good grades and get into a good college to extend my knowledge furthermore. Therefor when I am practicing I have to be careful to keep my mind