Learning from Mistakes

“The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect
When climbing mountains, you are going to trip and fall, slip and make many other mistakes. But, the people that learn from those mistakes will climb the highest mountain. Those who don't will fail at the most crucial part of the mountain. I have learned in life that I make a lot of mistakes. Some of them happen over and over again and some of them, I learn from and never make again. In life and in sports, people make mistakes. Michael Jordan has missed the winning shot before, Tiger has missed the winning putt. Michael Phelps smoked pot. There are many different mistakes that have been made by so many great people. But, the reason Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods have made many of those shot is because they learned from the times they missed. They had that drive to make them work hard enough to not make the same mistake they did twice. Baseball is the perfect example of learning from your mistakes. When a great hitter gets fooled on a strike out pitch, they go back to the dugout, think about what they could have done better, what pitch that was and many other things. Then, they go out and execute. Bad hitting strike out on the same pitches over and over and they never learn, so they never become good hitters or very successful. That also goes for regular every day life. We have to learn from our mistakes. I think that it is an important part of being an adult. Learning from your mistakes can also make you very successful. So I challenge you, the next mistake you make, learn from it. Do not make the same mistake twice.