if mistakes can be avoided, then why do we keep making mistakes?

Answer 1

I don't believe all " mistakes " can be avoided. We can choose not too experience something, but in doing so we never know for sure what the outcome would have been. We can guess and surmise but we never truly know. Sometimes in hindsight we think, " boy, was that a mistake " but are armed with the knowledge, to take with us into the future, and hopefully avoid repeating the same mistake / experience again, or handle a similar situation differently, in order to change the outcome. We learn a lot through our mistakes, about ourselves, others and the world around us.

Sometimes we need to be hurt in order to grow
We must fail in order to know
We must loss in order to gain
Some lessons are learned best through pain

Answer 2

Not all mistakes can be avoided. We learn by doing. If you're not making mistakes then you're probably not taking enough risks. When you try something new then you are not an expert yet and you are bound to make errors along the way. We are human beings. We are fallible. There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Even experts highly skilled in their fields can make mistakes due to momentary lapses of judgment, inattention, or unforeseen obstacles. Some mistakes can be avoided, but we don't have complete control over everything so we will always make mistakes.

Answer 3

Making mistakes is how we all learn. You may know it by another name -- experience. If we do not make mistakes, then we will not learn.
Yes, mistakes can be avoided but only if you recognize the mistake first. And how can we recognize a mistake so that we avoid it? Yes..you have to have made that mistake first.

It's like there's a fork in the road to your destination. One of the path is the right one and the other is a dead end. From where you are standing (at the fork) you would not know which one leads to the dead end. It only when you have been to the dead and and backtracked, would you know in the future which is the right path to take.

Answer 4

A "mistake" is past tense.
If your noticing that a mistake has happened more than once, then you are just now accepting the fact it is a mistake where as before you thought it was a good thing to do.
Whether or not you do it again is up to you. (edit)If youchoose to ignore what you have learned (assuming a mistake has been made), this means you don't care if doing it again is wrong.
In your mind, you will convince yourself it is no longer a mistake. Thus, the fool materializes.

Answer 5

If you mean RE-making the same mistakes, the answer is easy. SLEEP or less esoterically put LACK OF CONSCIOUSNESS leading to an inability to live constructively.

The above prevents people from knowing that focus on the fear (guilt or any negative emotion) of making a mistake leads to the repeating of the same mistake. In this case we are talking about wrong focus.

Right focus is focus on what we want to attract into our lives.
For that reason it is best to change our negative attitudes to positive ones.

For all the religious questioners out there, this is what prayer refers to. If you pray for what you don`t want, you will get more of it every time and then probably blame yourself or God. In the end you will likely be filled with guilt and misery.
This is hell on earth. Change focus and watch the miracle.

Answer 6

It's so funny, my husband and I were just talking about this. I think that people don't give much thought to what mistakes they make, how the mistake affects them, or even how the mistake affects another person. I think that people should give more thought to the idea of mistakes and how they affect us and others around us. I think we make mistakes because we want to continue living the way we lived before the mistake occured but that just isn't right and it's unfair to us and those around us. I think people need to give more thought to what's going on around them, pay close attention to who's around them, and the idea of the mistake.

Answer 7

Mistakes can never be avoided because everything can always be a mistake. Avoiding one mistake simply means making another. Every action has its pluses and minuses. Every choice has its costs and benefits. Just when you though you made the right decision, the flaws of that decision will unravel.

Answer 8

well....first of all you must qualify this term "mistake" for it to make any sense.

the word mistake is a word which is only relatively defined.

in absolute truth there is no such word as mistake.

people respond to perceptions which have some set of choices known but perhaps not available to just any person.

i can give you a definite relationship meaning for the term mistake that would satisfy most if not all relativities.

and yet....not everyone would agree because not everyone has the mind to presently comprehend relativities.

the issue is one of 'experience' and of 'knowledge'.

in truth however....mistakes do not really occur.

since for every choice made a governing set of principles is executed for choice. but one 'slip' of a muscle or thought and the set of principles (of mind/soul/matter) which were only partially aware of total reality may not effect as one (or more) had envisioned/hoped.

mis takes are generally errors of perception.

and we keep making them because we don't have all the facts.....or fallacies.


be well

Answer 9

Mistakes is a sourse to learn a lot of things. We can know from our parents and friends that life is the only worth thing to save but we're not able to realize it until suddently we happen to feel it ourselves under some reason. People are silly creatures - they are not impressed enough when somebody else feels pain - they need to be injured themselves to be sure something is really dangerous. We are just children. And it's wonderful:).

Answer 10

Because for as long as we exist we cannot avoid our humanity!
We will always err to one degree or another. The bright side is that when we die? We make no more mistakes.