How to learn from past mistakes

All, absolutely all of us make mistakes and we are even going to continue making them. The number of errors can increase depending on the different attempts we make to do new things, however, this does not have to be be an obstacle or be considered a failure, but quite the opposite, as long as we learn from the mistakes that we go committing. Life offers us different opportunities to continue growing and developing as people and most of them are found in the mistakes we make.

In your case, if you are asking yourself frequently How to learn from the mistakes of the past?, you must feel that you are not taking advantage or at least not enough of those teachings that we leave every mistake we make and you would like to somehow find them so that later you can do it best. That is why in this Psychology-Online article, we are going to explain in detail how learn from mistakes made through a series of tips and tools that will be of great use to you utility.

Index

1. Learn from your mistakes
2. Tips for learning from past mistakes
3. How to forgive yourself for past mistakes

Next, we will mention some tips that if you put them into practice they will surely help you learn from each of the mistakes you make in your life. Not without first mentioning some aspects that you have to take into account:

• Failures are also positive. Every time you fail, don't feel bad about doing it or blame yourself for it, quite the opposite. Keep in mind that each and every one of the failures that we are having in life are also positive, in the first place, because the that does not fail is because he has not tried anything and whoever has not tried anything will always stay there, in the same area of comfort. Inside every failure, there is a new lesson that we can learn and we find different ways of doing things. If we focus on it, surely the next time we will do it better.
• Don't be afraid of being wrong. "Tell me how many times you have been wrong and I will tell you how long you need to get what you want." This is a very true and revealing phrase, since the more we make mistakes, we find better ways to reach our goals. So don't be afraid of being wrong, all successful people have made mistakes, not just one but many times but, finally, those mistakes have led them little by little to overcome themselves and to be where they are now.
• Learn to forgive yourself. Stop blaming yourself for past mistakes, if there are things you did that you regret, learn from them and move on. The feeling of guilt becomes negative when it prevents us from learning from the mistake and moving on, so we must always detach ourselves from that feeling when it is doing us wrong. Keep in mind that if you did something that you regret today it is because at that time you did not have enough tools to face that situation and there is nothing wrong with that, now you have them and, therefore, from this moment on you will do better. In the following article, we give you good tips for making it up to yourself.

Use the new learning to your advantage

After you have found the learning from each mistake you have made, once you are fully aware of it, take advantage of it and use it to your advantage, so that the next time something similar happens to you, make use of those new tools that you have acquired for get ahead faced with that situation. So every time you make a mistake, make sure you have acquired that new knowledge to make it better for the next one.

Live the present

A mistake that people make frequently and that we keep repeating constantly is that instead of enjoying our here and Now, we continue to torture ourselves about issues from the past, in this case, about mistakes or worrying about what the future. The best we can do is be in the here and now and enjoy itTherefore, the only reason why we must turn to see the past is to use in the now that learning that we obtained from having been wrong before, but nothing more. In other words, only bring to the present information and knowledge that can now be useful to us and discard what causes us suffering. Don't miss our article on how to forget the past and live in the present.

Don't act on impulse

If you notice that even despite having found learning from every past mistake you have made, you keep falling again and again in exactly the same mistake, probably, it is that you are acting by impulse.

Remember that in most situations, before making a decision and especially if it is very important, you have to make a reflection beforehand even if it is small, but you should avoid acting impulsively and without thinking all the time. You can measure your degree of impulsivity by doing the following online impulsivity test.

What most people do when we make a mistake is criticize ourselves and treat ourselves extremely badly. We torture ourselves and see only how negative it has been for us to have made that mistake. If your inner voice is acting against you and until this moment, it continues to reproach you for the mistakes of the past, it is time you put a stop to it and teach it that from now on act only in your favor.

But how can we change our inner voice and turn it in our favor? You must take into account first of all, that to achieve it time and dedication are required, since all our lives we have been destructively criticizing ourselves.

Let us now begin to train our mind to be good to us and self-pitying. To do this, you need to be aware of how much you self-criticize yourself, identify each time that you do it and, finally, each time you find yourself doing it, change that dialogue internal. You can at that moment, imagine that who you are talking to is your best friend, that he is the one who has made a mistake and that he needs your comfort and acceptance, so you have to talk to him with affection, comfort him and advise him in the best way you can so that he does better the next chance.

In the following article, you can see some exercises to learn to be positive.

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