Why Do We Keep Making the Same Mistakes?
- Posted by: Todd
- Posted on: Tue, February 17, 2009
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This article at “Slow Leadership’s” blog has some great points, including self-justification; blaming others; impatience and impulsiveness as main reasons for our stupidity in making mistakes.
You can read the article here.
So… why do you keep making the same mistakes OVER AND OVER?!
Carmine Coyote writes: "Given the number of mistakes most of us make, you would think we would quickly learn how to do better. Mistakes involve pain, embarrassment and loss—things no one likes to experience—yet many are more or less easily preventable. Saying that human beings are imperfect is true but doesn’t get us much further forward. We may all be imperfect, fallible creatures, but is there nothing we can do to lessen our tendency to screw things up? It’s easy for writers to talk grandly about learning from your mistakes. What does that mean? Learn what? Some mistakes are unique; many are depressingly the same. We mess up, resolve to do better, then mess up again in more or less the same way. Is there any way to learn how to avoid repetitive errors? I think there is and it’s simpler than we imagine..."
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Jeff Borden on Tue, February 17, 2009
Interesting…My thoughts were considering this theme in my morning meditations (http://tinyurl.com/dmvz4k). I think much of our repeated mistakes come from our lack of submission to Jesus as the Lord of our life aka “not dying to the god of self.” If we avail ourselves to being transformed into His image, the repeated mistakes get repeated less and less.
Tim on Tue, February 17, 2009
Todd,
I recently wrote a blog post (http://www.TimKirkwood.com) saying some of the same things. “........And if, only if, I could go back and tell myself a few things. Just a whisper in my ear. A note in the sand. A chill down the spine, just something to warn me of the results of my selfish decisions. Things would be different. But, as we all know. That’s not possible. No matter how many times I click my heels, here I am. So what now. Well, they say that you should learn from your mistakes and not make them again. OK. Well easier said than done. Some mistakes are easy to remember. Don’t touch the hot oven racks. Don’t talk back to your father. But what do you do about the little ones. The ones that you see yourself making over and over. How do you break the cycle. How do you force yourself to not do the things that you have done and failed over and over. I guess over time some of them eventually sink in. But the stubborn ones, what can you do?............”
Tim
Liz on Tue, February 17, 2009
Because it’s easier.
Paul on Tue, February 17, 2009
Well, just off the top of my head I can think of two big reasons we don’t learn from our mistakes.
One is that we don’t really want to change. Sure there’s pain involved in our mistakes, but sometimes we actually prefer the pain we’re used to rather than the pain we would incur by trying to change.
The second is that even when we really do want to change and we’re willing to endure the pain involved, we have developed bad thought patterns that are extremely difficult to break. We react automatically without even realizing what we’re doing perhaps with anger or lust or reading blog articles when we ought to be working.
Peter Hamm on Wed, February 18, 2009
Liz.
Bingo!
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