Learn From Your Mistakes

This is an article written from experience. I would love my readers to read it thoroughly

Yesterday afternoon been Sunday, After I arrived form Church and did one or two things, I felt I should relax while relaxing, I felt bored and thought of what to do, so I picked up my phone because I cannot do without pressing my phone, so I unlocked my phone and decided to play a game and the game comprises of different levels and each level is in two stages with various tasks.

So, I was playing I played each level more than four times because I kept making mistake and I was unable to finish the stage before time limit and I have to complete the stages before I would be able to progress to the next stage and I kept on playing each level more than four times because of persistency in my mistakes, It was very funny and annoying and the higher the level, the harder the tasks.

While playing the game, anytime I failed a stage or level I became annoyed, sad and angry because of the effort been put, and the annoying part is that I am competing against computer and I have put much effort to progress to next level but I will just make this mistake and have to restart again even if I am about to enter into another level. I became annoyed and assumed that the game is being programmed to favour the computer because the task that is like a challenge to me is a very easy thing for the computer I am competing against, but I loved the challenge and still there is too much mistakes and this mistake will not allow me to finish the game in time.

The game looks hard to me, but it's interesting so I kept playing,. so while I was playing a level I said to myself that I will not make any mistake that I will do it perfectly, so I played and made another mistake, I was angry and disappointed, I had to start again so while playing I said to myself I have to be conscious of my steps and focus so that if I make mistake the cause will be known quickly.

So I played and made mistake, very funny but I was aware of the cause, I played again and progressed to the next level. The next level contained another task, but I played and for the first time I played a level without mistakes and progressed to another and that was how I was able to play the game with minimal mistakes, the levels and tasks became simpler and I felt I was better than the computer I was competing against because I was winning almost all the level in one attempt.

I am one of the people that believed that learning can take place anywhere and we can learn anytime because is one of the belief in the course I study in the university. One of the ways we learn is either we learn consciously or unconsciously. After I am done playing the game I was just sitting

and this thought came to my mind that the reason the game seems difficult to me in the first place was that I was unable to learn from my mistakes and that was why I kept repeating the same thing. After this quote came to my mind

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expect different result.". Albert Einstein

There are people who loves to do things the same thing and expect different result, it's not done that way and some also refuse to learn from their mistakes. We are human being we cannot be perfect and free of errors or mistakes. Mistakes will continue to happen as long as we continue to endeavor in one thing or the other. Here are the few things I learnt while playing the game and this can be channeled to our daily live activities because it is as a result of our activities that mistakes happen.

• We should not be discouraged of our mistakes, because mistakes are bound to happen, but we can reduce it.

• We should see our mistakes as an avenue to learn, because the mistakes happened as a result of some causes. Let's learn from our mistakes.

• We should critically reflect our mistakes and analyse our errors

• We Should make improvement of our steps or strategies, we cannot do things in the same way and expect different result

• We should not see ourselves as a complete perfect being, mistakes cannot be erased, if you do not make mistakes others might, let us learn to correct our mistakes and learn from it.

2022 is still very much new, let's analyse our errors and mistakes in previous years and we should try to correct them and also learn from our mistakes.

Wishing you all a prosperous new year.