Make more mistakes!

Make Mistakes

I often advice teenagers to always try whatever idea that comes to their mind. No matter how hard it appears, they should strive to hit hard at it.

Teenagers are scared to make mistakes and this is one of the problems they face.
Mistakes have been seen by parents as unacceptable and every force there is, has been put into ensuring that those mistakes do not surface in any way. Though, this is adviceable and necessary in trying to inculcate the ''Do it Right'' mentality in the child but this young lads, overtime, have misunderstood the purpose for correction and mistakes. Now children/teenagers are scared of making mistakes and this have driven them into a boring life, where they are scared to make any effort simply because they feel they'd be scolded when they do not get it right. This mentality is the result of the ''do it right'' ideology.

Thomas Edison amongst others would always speak of how necessary it is that once makes mistakes and learn from it. Often you hear people say Rome wasn't built in a day.

Some quotes by Thomas Edison

• Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless....
    
• Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.... Continue Reading