From the course: Learning from Failure
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Owning your mistakes
From the course: Learning from Failure
Owning your mistakes
- Everyone makes mistakes, but not everyone understands why they have to own their mistakes. It's because owning your mistakes really does represent the first step in learning from a setback. It's about accepting that you're responsible for some or all of whatever negative outcome just occurred. There are several important reasons to do this but first, it might be useful to mention why it's so common for people to not own up to their errors. There's really three reasons. First, it's so easy to blame someone else. To me, blame is just an acronym that stands for barely legitimate, almost meaningless excuse. The blame game is never productive. Next, people conscious of the fact that they might be partially to blame don't want to be publicly associated with an error. So they don't speak up and own their contribution. Finally, unconsciously, we often resist owning our mistakes as a defensive mechanism in order to preserve our self-confidence and our belief in our own competence. Well…
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