SIZ Approved Course | Self-Development Course | | Lecture 4 | Can we Achieve Self-Development by Making Mistakes?
Hello, SIZ fellows!
Hope all of you are having a great time. If you want to do some effort in self-development then, this course is definitely for you and I insist you to follow it.
Today, I'm going to talk about Can we achieve self-development by making mistakes?
You can read previous lectures on the following topics:
Lecture 1: How to discover your passion
Lecture 2: How to use Time Productively?
Lecture 3: Transform yourself without Social Media
So, let's get started...
Why do we have to Make More Mistakes?
We all have one thing in common. We want to be good at something no matter if it is sports, science, dating, speaking in your language, playing an instrument, or anything we are passionate about. We try to get better and better to one day call ourselves a master of this craft.
Nowadays everyone on the Internet claims to learn something incredibly difficult within just a couple of days.
Obviously, it is impossible to properly learn these skills in just a couple of days but it has an impact on the way we approach things. We are impatient and want to see instant success but that's not how things work.
It often takes so much longer than we think to become really really good at something and to become a master and a craft we have to make so many mistakes.
We all want to get from the beginner level to mastery as quickly as possible. If we drew a graph with the time and the skill level for all of these geniuses on the internet; it would probably look like a straight uprising curve. In reality, this curve doesn't really look like this. It takes years or even a lifetime to master a craft.
Does making mistakes aid Learning Process?
If you’re willing about directing movies then you should know that directors like Christopher Nolan or Quentin Tarantino devoted their whole lives to this craft of making movies. And that's why they make great movies at the beginning.
Your skill is going to increase very very quickly but from time to time the curve is going to flatten and you won't see as big improvements as in the beginning. But that doesn't mean that there is no progress.
It just takes more time because you already have great knowledge about the topic and the good thing about this curve is that there is no way that it goes down; no way that you get worse at what you do unless you don't do it at all for a long time.
3 Simple Steps to Follow
That's why you should follow those three simple steps:
1. Learn
2. Make
3. Repeat
This is one thing that you have to acknowledge. It's not just about learning, watching tutorials, reading books, and everything.
It's about actually practicing these things; learning, making and repeating those things because consistency is the key when it comes to developing a really really good craft.
Why do people quit the learning process?
The major reason why people quit is that they fail at some point and they just give up. There's a bad stigma with the word mistake. as soon as we fail we are embarrassed and we feel ashamed but to be honest.
A mistake is one of the greatest things that can happen to you if you want to get better because with every mistake comes to a lesson as well.
To truly learn something you first have to experience a failure.
When you already have some experience; you think to yourself there was nothing else to learn in this craft and you’re just at the top. And it's not going to get any better than this but with time you realize that you are completely wrong.
Is there always something else to learn?
But if you don't make all of the small mistakes along the way you wouldn't know how to handle these situations. So in the end, if you want to get better mistakes have to happen, and the sooner; the better.
I would probably say “mistake is a trait of discomfort for knowledge”
That's why you must push yourself into uncomfortable and unknown situations because you’ll make more mistakes there but also you’ll learn a lot more and improve a lot more.
You don't really get better in a language by just repeating one sentence all over again and you also don't get better in photography if you just shoot portraits. You're getting good at shooting portraits but you're not getting better in the craft as a whole.
Over to you!
We tend to think that as soon as we make a mistake; we do something wrong. It throws us back in our process of becoming really good at something but to be honest it actually speeds up the process.
So “make more mistakes” is as stupid as it sounds but it works out in the end. Don't negatively see them but instead, embrace them by learning from mistakes, and in the end, you'll be able to call yourself a master.
I hope you enjoyed this blog post. It would be great if you let me know in the comments what thing you want to get really good at. Have a great day
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