Why do i make silly mistakes

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Once again, proving common sense is really not so common. There are several common ways in which smart people manage to shoot themselves in the foot. While scientists have sent people to the deepest parts of the ocean and to the moon and back, they still cannot tell you all the secrets lurking right inside our heads.

Take our propensity to make errors, for example. Derek Muller , a physicist with a Ph. More importantly, it speaks to how two critical systems in the brain work together to achieve the kind of precision that created both the great pyramids and wrote symphonies, as well as the kind of error that plowed the Titanic into an iceberg in the middle of the Atlantic.

In order to change these mistakes, you must change yourself. Once you are able to reflect on your own mistakes, you can share your experience with others. It increases your wisdom and experience, so you know more the next time you face a similar challenge. Focus, not on failure, but on progress and see mistakes as helpful. It shows you what not to do next time and urges you to try a new angle that might work.

What is atelophobia? Fear of failure can be linked to many causes. For instance, having critical or unsupportive parents is a cause for some people. If you experience atychiphobia, you have an irrational and persistent fear of failing. Fear of failure may be part of another mood disorder, anxiety disorder, or eating disorder.