Have you noticed that people who move forward with a noble vision, often make mistakes that lead to new possibilities – while others allow mistakes to define them and give up? Why do we fear making mistakes, and why do we criticize others mistakes?
It may surprise you to realize that mistakes are the brain’s way to scoop up lessons from the past that will launch a better start. 
Author, Henry Link showed why this is so, in the words … While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Not surprisingly, reflection is the mental resource that changes mistakes into mental growth, which makes us see it as a sort of litmus test. By looking beyond mistaken ways you reacted to a leader in past, for instance, why not try a new approach this week?
The human brain makes the best of mistakes through neurological research about how we learn and change through our mistakes. Here are three smart skills that help you mentally to turn mistakes into stepping stones that will shape new successes …
1. Focus on new possibilities rather than on lost opportunities. When it comes to the brain we truly do become what we think and do, and mistakes make better stepping stones when we learn from them by shaping new approaches that help us move on.
2. Step back from each mistake you make and reframe how you’ll approach similar situations in a more effective way in future. Ask others for advice. Look at the evidences for success by imitating people you respect. Refuse to remain in ruts, or blame others. Risk courage for the change it takes to convert mistakes into triumphs.
3. Be good to you, because you need the mental chemical serotonin to succeed. Make a decision to stop beating up on yourself for mistakes and then stick to that decision. Admit your mistakes quickly before cortisol takes you down – apologize if others get hurt by errors you make and the mental freedom that gives will help you to move on.
Mistakes are the capital of successful people, and the downfall of people who allow them to rewire their brains for failure. Change comes to each of us, when we allow it to happen, and since we cannot change others or rewire their brains in any way – why not simply allow these smart skills to give you the freedom to move on?
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