Fear of Making Mistakes

Most of us do believe and accept the fact that “People learn through mistakes”. But what the most of us do not realize is that we are fear of making mistakes.

While you are at a restaurant that you have not been before and browsing through the menu, you are not sure of what to order. It’s simply because you have the fear that the food you order will not meet your taste buds.

Some people are reluctant to speak English is simply because they are fear of making mistakes.

As an educator, you have the fear of not being able to give the right answers to the questions by your students. You have the fear of not producing good results as expected by your superior. You have the fear of not being respected by your students and being understood by your superior of your current conditions.

As a student, you have the fear of not being able to understand in class. You have the fear of not being able to give the right answer to the questions. You have the fear of not getting good grades in your studies. You have the fear of not being able to meet your parents’ expectation in your studies. You have the fear of not being accepted by your friends.

As a sub-ordinate, you have the fear of not meeting your superior expectations in completing your task right.

As a superior, you have the fear of your sub-ordinates not meeting your expectations in getting assigned task right.

The list of fear could go on and on. In a nutshell, we have the fear of not having the total control of our life.

When we are afraid of our fears, one way to get out from that feeling is by making excuses when we fail at something that we have done. By making excuses, we feel good of ourselves by making other people feeling bad. By making excuses, we are actually not being truthful to ourselves. When will this culture ends?

So, do we allow our students to make mistakes? Do we allow our sub ordinates to make mistakes? Do we allow ourselves to make mistakes? If not, how would they learn? How would we learn?

Learning is through experience. Experience is the best teacher one could ever have. So, I think it’s ok to make mistakes. It’s ok having and giving some space in our life to make mistakes. But, it’s NOT ok to make the same mistakes twice.