Justifying a fault or mistake only serves to compound the issue. It is better to admit mistakes in order to learn from them. Admitting mistakes allows one to understand what went wrong without assigning blame. Some key points:
- Justifying a mistake doubles the mistake and distances one from learning the lesson.
- To learn from mistakes, one must be willing to admit them, have self-confidence, and make changes.
- Wise people readily admit mistakes so they can progress more quickly.
- Various cultures emphasize not making mistakes, so admitting them can be difficult but is important for growth.
2. Justifying a fault doubles it
- A famous “French Proverb”
In Urdu:
- “ہے کرنا دوگنا کو غلطی کرنا پيش داليل کے ”غلطی
3. What is “Justify”?
• To prove something
• Show something to be just, right or reasonable
4. Some Famous Quotes:
– “Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your
actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy
– “It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
– “The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by
verification.”
― Thomas Henry Huxley
5. How you can learn from your faults
rather than increasing it???
You can only learn from a fault or mistake after you admit you’ve
made it.
As soon as you start blaming other people (or the universe itself) you
distance yourself from any possible lesson.
But if you courageously stand up and honestly say “This is my fault
and I am responsible” the possibilities for learning will move towards
you.
6. Learning from mistake:
Learning from mistakes requires three things:
– Putting yourself in situations where you can make interesting
mistakes
– Having the self-confidence to admit to them
– Being courageous about making changes
7. Admission of a fault rather than
justification
Admission of a fault or mistake, even if only privately to yourself,
makes learning possible by moving the focus away from blame
assignment and towards understanding.
Wise people admit their mistakes easily. They know progress
accelerates when they do.
8. Admitting mistakes is difficult
sometime
An implied value in many cultures is that our work represents us i.e.
if you fail a test, then you are a failure. If you make a mistake then
you are a mistake
For example:
We are given letter grades (A, B, C, D and F) organizing us for
someone else’s consumption: universities and employers evaluate
young candidates on their grades, numbers based on scores from
tests unforgiving to mistakes.
9. Kinds of Mistakes without any
justification
Stupid: Absurdly dumb things that just happen. Stubbing your toe,
dropping your pizza on your neighbor’s fat cat or poking yourself in
the eye with a banana.
Simple: Mistakes that are avoidable but your sequence of decisions
made inevitable. Having the power go out in the middle of your party
because you forgot to pay the rent, or running out of drink at said
party because you didn’t anticipate the number of guests.
10. Kinds of Mistakes without any
justification
Involved: Mistakes that are understood but require effort to prevent.
Regularly arriving late to work/friends, eating fast food for lunch
every day, or going bankrupt at your start-up company because of
your complete ignorance of basic accounting.
Complex: Mistakes that have complicated causes and no obvious way
to avoid next time. Examples include making tough decisions that
have bad results, relationships that fail, or other unpleasant or
unsatisfying outcomes to important things.
11. Conclusion
If you’ve ever done any mistake— than take a moment of honesty
and bow your heads and admit it
Justifying a mistake doubles the mistakes and spoil everything. So
stop justification and admit your each and every mistake.