We’re all fallible
Eagle-eyed readers of yesterday’s blog will have realised that I scheduled it on the wrong day. Yesterday was not, in fact, Easter Monday at all.
My first reaction on seeing the blog was to despair at my own idiocy. Of course, I can excuse the mistake. I’ve had a fair bit going on recently. Yet, to feel regret for a genuine error ignores the fact that to err is human. We all make mistakes, yet many of us - myself included at times - feel the need to be consistently perfect at everything we attempt to do. It’s just not possible.
Indeed the need to be consistently great at everything has its own issues. It can:
-Breed workaholism and lead to burnout
-Generate feelings of self-doubt
-Undermine confidence
In our ‘post - edit - re-post’ world it’s easy to correct our mistakes, yet that would be to airbrush our fallibility and present an inauthentic picture.
Better instead to call it for what it is, a genuine mistake. To recognise it (write about it!), try not to repeat it and go again.
Eradicating mistakes is simply not possible. Learning from them is.
