Welcome Everyone,
Have you ever said this? “I wish I had listened to the advice my parents gave me.”
It is said. “Listen to your elders not because they are always right but because they have more
experiences of being
wrong.”
I have held countless positions over the course of 40+ years, ranging from the mail room to the last 15 years as a vice president, so I’ve gotten very skilled at being wrong and making mistakes and I’m sure I’ll keep making them.
According to some studies, the average person makes an astounding 35,000 decisions per day and the typical person commits 50 mistakes per day. That is more than 18,000 mistakes each year.
Pay attention to the phrase “typical” I’m confident that I’ve gone much above the typical amount.
Did you know it turns out that our brains know when we are making a mistake before we do? In the article “Learning From Mistakes: How Does the Brain Handle Errors,” published in Frontiers on June 16, 2020, explores how the brain recognizes and responds to errors. It was discovered that when someone makes a mistake, the brain engages in a particular type of brain activity. Error-related negativity, often known as ERN, occurs virtually simultaneously with the error. It seems like the brain detects errors a fraction of a second before we even become aware of them.
That didn’t help me when I was texting a friend that “I need to take another shirt before I finish packing” and left the ‘r’ out of the word shirt. Why is my brain hurting?
Mistakes are a part of life. And, I guess……..so are typos.