Making Mistakes

We failed because we made mistakes. We made mistakes because we were lack of experiences. Thus, with the right concept, we had learned to gain experiences from the mistakes we had made. We had introspected to find out where go wrong. We needed to analyze the whole process one more time. Through evaluation, then we are able to avoid making the same errors but come out with a better action plan to make it the next time.

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Everybody makes mistakes for no man is born perfect. In actual fact, the more mistakes we make, the better we will become as we have learned through making mistakes. That’s what we call gaining experiences.

Peter F. Drucker, the father of Modern Management, once said,”The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more things he will try. I would never promote into a top level job a man who was not making mistakes….. He is sure to be mediocre.”

You may make hundreds of mistakes but each mistake made must not be the same as the previous mistake. That’s what we call experimenting.

A positive thinking person needs to do thing right the first time or at least he makes an attempt to do so. If not, he must learn the lesson and does it right the second time. Something is not right if a person keeps doing wrong and repeating the same mistake!

I used to tell my subordinates that there are 3 types of managers in plantations.

1st type – he has not learned from his own mistakes. (Gaining no experience thus chance of demotion or being sacked is great.)

2nd type – he has learned from his own mistakes. (Gaining limited experiences thus chance of promotion is slim.)

3rd type – he has learned from his own mistakes and also from other people’s mistakes. (Gaining more experiences thus chance of promotion is great.)