Making Mistakes: Setting yourself up for success.

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“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” ~ Albert Einstein

Till childhood, all of us tend not to make mistakes. Surely, our first steps, falling downs, not clear words are cheered giving us the fortitude to get up and attempt once more.
But when we enter educational institutions, the rush for not making a single mistake starts. Teachers keep telling us what is right or not, that tomatoes are red and the poem is about love not about the sky. The risk-taking activities that used to be praised are currently rebuffed, and we either offer up or figure out how to stay with safe responses or just keep silent. Unfortunately, this attitude doesn’t encourage creative and deep learning. Instead, it fosters a fear of failure and discourages ingenuity.
This means that teachers don’t like coming up with challenges and the “flexibility” is maybe the most recent popular expression in schooling. Consequently, children are under more stress than ever, but lacking in “basic coping skills.” This loss of coping skills could be because “years of testing and learning for grades have robbed them of critical thinking skills and the ability to self-reflect.”

All of this leads to difficulties in later activities such as university life, choosing a profession, or finding a job. It’s a matter of fact that whatever many children hang in and try to meet today’s standards, most of them are hesitant to take a stab at anything new, incapacitated by fears of seeming imperfect. Nowadays many researchers come up with solutions and ideas on how to solve the problem. The most reasonable solution is to encourage learners not to be ashamed of their mistakes, accepting it as giving a try.
So why are mistakes important in life?

Everyone is unique. This is a well-known fact. Nevertheless, despite all our uniqueness, we also have something in common, namely, our inherent “ability” to make mistakes.
But only those, accepting their mistakes as challenges win in the battle of life. If we place an excessively high value on outstanding performance, children come to see anything less than perfection as a failure. It will stop them from taking risks, opening their own business, or just giving a try to a new project. They are just stuck in life.
How can we change the situation?