LEARNING BY 'DELIBERATE' MISTAKES

They say you can learn by two ways,

1. By doing something and later found the problem with particular action and learn from your mistake.
2. Learning from others mistakes, someone else teach you what and how to do it.

Luckily I had a time when I had a third option.

You know it is wrong and it has particular consequences and still you do it and "note down" the "damages". Believe me, it strengthen your action-and-consequence understanding. You can actually get expertise in how much damage will happen.

But wait a minute, who will pay for the damages? So obviously, it is really not a choice that you can say a third option.

Therefore, I say I was "lucky".

This is how it worked for me. I was working in a big organisation, and I had a senior who would always do opposite of what I will recommend [other staff thought he was threatened by me, I think he would not accept anyone]. Many time he asked me rationale behind my recommendation, listen to it, and still do the opposite. Sometime, I did not had a simple rationale but my gut-feeling, so he had a point doing opposite.

And yes, the damages happened, not once or twice ... but a regular feature during my job at that organisation for atleast two years. Do I need to tell how much I learn from it?

Let me know if you were also lucky enough.