It is necessary to made failures first before we learn from it?

Question

is it a customary practice or it just happen because we are all just human that made mistakes..

Answer 1

It's like calibration. If you have a game joystick for example, you have to move the stick around so the computer can get an idea the extents and center of the joy stick. You as a person must go to the extents of failure to determine what success is. There are points in time when you can get enough knowledge that failure is less likely.

Answer 2

We do not set out to learn by failure especially when the consequences of any failure could be disastrous or harmful. However, we know failure is always possible because we are inexperienced or lack the necessary knowledge and because there are many variables in whatever we seek to do. We end up failing sometimes and succeeding in other times. We learn from both kinds of results only if we try in spite of the possibility of failure. So all our failures are as equally necessary as all our successes are to the learning experience by trial and error.
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Answer 3

Yes, we all must make a mistake to fully learn. However, those with sheer luck may learn from someone else's mistake. Nonetheless, there is nothing like experienceing first-hand the consequences of a mistake. Hey, if someone tells you no to do something, doesn't the human curiosity drives you to do it anyway?

Answer 4

Learning is a thing that "happens" when the intellect is functioning and the senses involved - the mind, alert. We are creatures of habit and too-often, complacency & apathy make us lose opportunities to learn... alittle knowledge is a dangerous thing as it is incomplete. Luckily, if we're "in tune" with the contextualities of life, we can sense intuitively when this is the case and take measures to bring our sensibilities into a greater horizons or scopes of reality.

We are only victims insofar as we allow ourselves to be... the cost for being "trouble free" is being "ever-vigilent" and that's why we make so manymistakes & experience so many failures, pure & simple.

Answer 5

We can learn from other peoples mistakes.
As humans go, we seem to learn all the wrong ways first.

Answer 6

The only way to learn from a failure is to make it, as your question states. Whether it is commited by the individual in the learning position or not is not really a matter as long as learning occurs.

Answer 7

I believe that the only way to truly learn is to make a mistake first. If you do something and everything goes right, you still learn, but you don't learn it as deep as if something had gone wrong and you had to fix it. Repetition is also necessary.

Answer 8

You can first think things through before you do them to prevent failures and yes we must learn from our mistakes in order to grow.

Answer 9

For instance, I've learned from your inabilities to create a proper sentence. yes,sh it happens! we ARE all human, and you are just the most recent one to make a mistake in sentence structure. You could have said: Is it necessary to first make mistakes in order to learn from them?

Answer 10

A lot of people don't learn that the stove is hot until they get burned. You can learn from success, but nothing solidifies the lesson like a stinging faliure. A little bit of imperfection is healthy, in that way.