5 Repeating Habits That Stop You From Learning From Your Mistakes

Another one of Einstein’s famous quotes is:

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

I guess we all have a little insanity habituated in us. In fact, research findings from the University of Chicago have proved that even when incentives are high to learn from our mistakes, we tend to ‘bury our heads and NOT learn from our mistakes.

Now mistakes are a good thing, in moderation at least. Only this morning I read through?Richard Branson’s newsletter?where he reflected on some of the habits that have led to his successes. One of his most repeated quotes is:?‘You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.’

Possibly the under-emphasised words here are:?"You learn by …."

Back to the research findings: these are the habits that you want to look out for:?the habits that encourage you to ‘bury your head and not learn from your mistakes.

1. You Keep Them To Yourself

We tend to automatically attach a sense of shame to our failures. Failures eat at our self-confidence and in most situations our perceptions of how other people view our failures are more negative than the real situation.

As I have got to understand some of the inner workings of AA through a good friend of mine, I now appreciate even more the necessity for openly sharing one's failures and threats.

The learning:?don’t bottle up your failures. Share and discuss them, learn from them and get input from others as others will have a completely different set of insights about the causes and possible solutions.