Perception of "mistakes"

err. Specifically, it's about how we, as cultural groups, miscalculate and how we, as individuals, deal with when our inner beliefs collapse. Since everyone enjoys the right feeling and treats right as a norm, you can imagine how people will feel when they make a mistake. On the one hand, we will feel that this is an occasional special situation, an inexplicable disorder, on the other hand, we will feel silly and humiliated. Just like seeing a test paper full of red crosses, after making a mistake, we will shrink, we will collapse on the seat, and then we will be depressed and angry. At best, mistakes are a nuisance, and at worst, mistakes are a nightmare. Either way, we all find mistakes discouraging and embarrassing, not the same as the warm currents that flow through our bodies when we are right.

And that's just the beginning of the nightmare. In everyone's collective consciousness, mistakes are not only linked to stupidity and shame, but also to ignorance, laziness, psychological pathology, and even moral degeneration. The Italian cognitive scientist Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini brilliantly summed up this idea. We make mistakes because, he says, we make mistakes because we are "absent-minded, distracted, uninterested, unprepared, poorly qualified, timid, low-minded, out-of-control, or biased in our values, race, society, or patriotism, or overly ambitious, and self-deceptive." According to this prevailing pessimistic view, the mistakes we have made prove our grave failures in society, intellect, and morality.

Of all the mistakes we make, the misconception of "mistakes" probably comes first: we get even the "mistakes" wrong. Making mistakes does not represent low intelligence, but rather the key to improving human cognition. Mistakes are not moral blemishes, but have deep roots in the noblest aspects of human nature, inseparable from compassion, optimism, imagination, faith, and courage. Mistakes are not synonymous with indifference or narrow-mindedness, but are an important part of our learning and progress. It is precisely because of our mistakes that we can constantly revise our understanding of ourselves and our perception of the world.

Since mistakes play a pivotal role in the development of our IQ and emotional intelligence, we need not be embarrassed to make mistakes, much less as a problem. Rather, as Benjamin Franklin put it, error is a window into human nature, from which we can see our galloping imagination, our boundless potential, and our restless souls. No matter what confusion, pain, and devastation mistakes bring us, in the final analysis, it is the teacher who teaches us to understand ourselves, not the right ones.

This is not a new point of view. But strangely enough, the culture we live in despises mistakes while emphasizing that mistakes are indispensable in life. Why? It's reflected in the way we talk about ourselves. Whenever we make a mistake, we always shrug our shoulders and say, "People make mistakes." Just as bats correspond to bats and lazy men correspond to laziness, the "human race" is directly linked to "anything can always be messed up". In many religious, philosophical, and scientific literatures, almost all sections of human beings are written that "human beings are naturally inclined to make mistakes and mention that mistakes are not superficial trifles that can be laughed off (not as superficial as fingernails, nor flashed by like hiccups and hallucinations). The philosopher and theologian (and later saint) Augustine wrote 1 200 years before Rene Descartes famously uttered the phrase "I think, therefore I am, therefore," and "I am / (fallor ergo sum.) According to his formulation, not only do human beings make mistakes, but in a sense human beings are errors themselves."

Although the tendency to love mistakes has been integrated into our flesh and blood veins, the way of integration is very much like the spring clown is stuffed in the box, you know that as soon as you open the box, the clown will jump out, but you will still be frightened and caught off guard every time. From this point of view, errors are similar to death, and are implicit attributes of the word "human". And we recognize mistakes just like we recognize death, and we think that this is something that everyone has to go through, but we always feel that it will not happen to us, let alone be happy. It's this mentality that, no matter what we make wrong, we tend to pretend that nothing happened, or that it shouldn't. Therefore, either they will not admit their mistakes, or they will be cheeky to defend, or they will pretend that they have not made mistakes, or they will downplay their mistakes, or they will push them on others.

--[Beauty] Catherine Schultz