Some Counterintuitive Advice for Learning Your Lesson
This is the tightrope we must walk.
Let’s imagine you’ve made a big mistake. Suppose you are taking yourself to town over this mistake.
As we all know from painful experience, this isn’t usually the most productive response. Yet, we still need to hear the lesson.
The question is, how do we learn from our mistakes while also learning to let go? This is the tricky tightrope we must walk.
One exercise you can consider is writing down everything you did wrong and then trying to defend yourself.
Defend yourself like you’d defend your best friend.
Finally, review your mistakes and examine what you did wrong, what you could have done differently, and what you will do differently next time.
That way, you’re not letting yourself off the hook, but you’re not tearing yourself to pieces either.
