Mistakes

Mistakes are good

Keep making mistakes and learn from those mistakes and never make the same mistake again. Just doing this will provide the best learning you would ever get. Instead of relying on external sources of knowledge, you will develop your own learning. Stuff that works for you. Specifically for you. It is like mental pruning. You keep trying to take different approaches and whenever you come across a wrong path you just eliminate it from you journey. After myriad of eliminated wrong pathways you’ll be headed on correct one.

What is right or wrong?

But on what grounds do you define a action or decision a mistake. For me it’s pretty simple - growth. Not happiness, comfort, appreciation, benefit to society, or money. A certain path is a mistake if it doesn’t make me grow as a person. It doesn’t mean to always yearn for improvement and to kick myself if something I do doesn’t lead to my improvement. As Byun Chul Han said, “We are not chained by what we must do but by what we can do”. Growing does not mean to lose your past self and make something else out of it. Growing means to build on top of yourself. To prevent self-exploitation the activity should not be for purpose of growth but for sake of itself.

Error

Lets get down to bare bones of this. Word “error” comes from Latin errare meaning ‘to wander’. And every error/mistake points you towards the right direction. Making a wrong turn must mean that there must be a right way. But there is no such thing as [[right or wrong]]. At-least objectively speaking.