Do We Learn More From Our Mistakes Or Our Successes?

What happens when you make a mistake? Do you learn anything? Or do you think you learn more when you have a success? It’s obvious that we learn more from our mistakes than our successes. I have two examples – chess and academic worksheets.

The first example, chess, definitely proves that we learn more from our mistakes than our successes. When you make a mistake and lose, you say to yourself: “Now I know that I shouldn’t play that way next time.” And the next time you play, you won’t make the same mistake. When you win, you say to yourself: “YAY!!!” You don’t really learn anything from cheering for yourself.

The other example, academic worksheets, also proves that we learn more from our mistakes than our successes. When you make a mistake, you learn from it. You don’t just ignore it. You see what you got wrong, and that helps prevent future mistakes similar to the one you made by letting you remember the cause of the mistake. But if you don’t get anything wrong, you don’t learn anything. You might think that you never get anything wrong, but whatever you did, you wouldn’t learn anything.

In conclusion, people learn more from their mistakes than their successes.