The
problem with such believes is that it does not translate to real world
application. Infact what we see is the paradox. Most highly celebrated students adored with high
IQ in schools becomes morons in the real world once they leave the traditional
school system. When measured side by side with their low IQ pairs after some
years these guys with High IQ end up in
financial ruins, poor marriages, a low problem solving skills. At best most
end up average in handling real life issues.
Making mistakes is one of the great ways we learn in the real world. A baby can only walk after a lot of frustrating attempts and mistakes. The baby does not need to read any book, only deliberate steps are required. He/ she falls down, (probably got injured a little) and rise again. Take one more step, falls down and the cycle goes on until a near perfect state is attended and the baby begins to walk. At this stage the baby is no longer a baby but a child. That is by changing crawling to walking through taking deliberate conscious steps. Inspite of mistake, the baby grows into a child.
This experience is what is missing in most
of our institution today and indeed in most adult. Fear has taken over, even
in most homes and families, children and spouse are scolded severely if they make mistakes
in an attempt to succeed. So
most people would not take any steps rather they continue the “status quo”.
Mistakes
are opportunity to learn something new, something you don’t know before. In
real life, the more mistake a person make, the more the person learn. This is a
bit of miracle hidden in every mistake.
Learning
to ride a bicycle is a great example and illustration we can make here. That is
a great scenario. Just remember the frustration you went through as you struggle to learn how to ride a
bicycle, all your friends were riding but all you could do was climbing on the
bicycle and falling off on every point. You made mistake after mistake. Then
suddenly you stop falling off. You begin to peddle, the bike begin rolling and
suddenly like miracle, a whole new world opens to you, that is the miracle found
in mistakes. below are great names that turned their mistakes into miracle.
Warren
Buffet Mistakes
Warren
Buffet, Americans richest investor is known and respected for his company,
Berkshire Hathaway was a shirt manufacturing company that was slowly going out
of business. Buffet thought his team could turn the company around. As at that
time, textile manufacturing was dying in America and was moving to other
countries. It was a trend that even warren buffet could not go against and the
company eventually fail as a manufacturing company even with Warren Buffet
behind it. Yet inside of this company, warren found the gems that ultimately
made him extremely rich.
Diamond field
Another
company, Diamond fields was formed to look for diamonds which were never found.
The companys head geologist had made a mistake, yet instead of finding
diamonds, they struck one of the largest nickel deposits in the world. Their
stick price soared upon the discovery. Today although the name remain diamond
fields, they make their money in nickel.
Levi
Straus
Levi Straus headed to the gold fields of California to strike it rich in mining,
however he was not a gold miner, so he instead began sewing pants
out of canvas for the miners who were successful, today I think most of
the world has heard of levis jeans.
Thomas Edison
It
is said that Thomas Edison would never had invented the light bulb if he had
been an employee for the company he ultimately founded General Electric( G.E)
It
s said that Thomas Edison failed 10,000 times before finally inventing the
light bulb. If Edison had been an employee of a major corporation, he would most
likely have been fired for making so many mistakes.
Christopher Columbus’s
Christopher Columbus big mistake was that he was looking for a trade route to china and accidentally found America; the richest most powerful
country in the world.
In school you are considered smart if you
don’t make mistake. On the street you are smart
only if you make mistake and learn from them. People who often avoid
taking step forward in the fear of making mistake, make the greatest mistakes
of their times. They deny themselves of what is possible.
The best way is to learn how to ride a bicycle is by riding one
and finding some one who knows how to, to guide you, not reading the books about
bicycle riding- which is what the school system does. You can read all books
and still be imprisoned with the emotion of fear. To overcome that fear you must
take hold of a bicycle and climb it, move forward , fall down, rise again.
Doing so some great number of times is what makes you a cyclist.
The problem many have with making mistakes is
that they never learn from it rather they blame. We are to learn from mistakes
not to blame when you blame you become lame. You hear people make statement
like “I will never do that again” they blame and do not see the other side of
the coin. Some other people lie or justify themselves. Some other also quit and
never try anything near that again. Still, others become “deniers”.
The ultimate of mistake as related to your
financial life or any other area is that a whole new world open to you. As Winston Churchill
said “success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of
enthusiasm”.
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