Corrected mistakes are called experience!

Oscar Wilde had said "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." Well, I guess he was being a bit satiric or being a bit of a smart Alec, because a mistake doesn’t necessarily make for an experience. A mistake is a mistake any which ways. You don’t want to make mistakes.

You don’t necessarily gain experience by making mistakes. So, the experience there is really like a joyride kind of experience rather than the kind where you get exp points towards levelling up. In other words, don’t just chalk it up to experience. Do dwell on its negative impact. Except nobody does that, right this is what we wish to discuss here corrected mistakes are leading us to experience.

Firstly, because “experience” has other meanings. So not all experiences will be from corrected mistakes. But secondly - Oscar was mainly trying to be satirical (as always!). And it would be quite wrong to imagine that mistakes all led to “experience”. Some people are simply not sufficiently analytical, or intelligent, or - even - interested. So for them, at least, their mistakes will never amount to what I would thing of as “experience”. Despite the fact they did “experience” their mistakes to realise that it was a mistake in the real sense or a stupid experience if we may say so.

Let me explain it further. When their mistakes “happened” to them, and they failed to feel the impact of them, to use an analogy from your nervous system. As if the nerve[s] to that portion of their body had been cut, and their foot - maybe - “experienced” the mistake, but the fact of that occurring was never transmitted along the telegraph wire to their brain. Let us study the other three - interest, intelligence, analysis one by one to understand the subject

“Interest” - they might have been aware of the mistake, and simply chose to ignore it. “Analysis” - the mantra here is, if you have a problem, there are only two things you can do with it. Either solve it (in which case you no longer have the problem) or simply ignore it (in which case you are likely to keep having it). People like me always get a buzz out of analysing them - as part of the problem solving bit. Maybe we’re a bit over-analytical, and a pain in the butt - but we manage to get through life with a lot lesser bumps in the road.

“Intelligence” - Without even wishing to give offence to anyone, if you haven’t got the minimum intelligence to realise you are having a problem, or why you are having it, you’re scarcely likely to tell yourself it’s your own fault. Or even for that matter, to work out why you had it even if it’s someone else’s fault.

I should here add that you actually gain experience by not making mistakes. Each time you don’t make a mistake where you could have instead fell into a pit, you gain experience. So by doing the right thing you gain experience. It will be a lesser kind of phenomenon for you or simply something that just “happened”, but you couldn’t make any sense of it. whereas “Experience” is on a higher plane - “experience” is something we learn from - hopefully, reducing future risk.

When you think of it, while learning a new job , don't we all test our boundaries, push the envelope, rev the limits, bounce ideas we have in our heads off a little and try them some result in a definite course labelled a mistake while others reveal it wasn't a good idea and we were able to get back on track without anyone noticing and still it could be called a mistake . ones which we learn from. Stay Blessed! #kishoreshintre