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Make Your Mistake a Mistake

Plus

A mistake becomes a mistake plus when it awakens your
mind. It thus enables you to re-plan your life. A mistake plus
makes a man a superman.

he English poet Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744) said
Tin one of his poems, ‘To err is human; to forgive,
divine.’ This saying has now become a well-known
proverb. It is a fact that everyone makes mistakes. This
is a part of human nature. But there are two kinds of
mistakes. The first one is simply a mistake. There is
another kind of mistake, that is, a ‘mistake plus’. The
first kind of mistake fails to give you anything. But, a
mistake plus gives you many great things. A mistake
plus seems to be a mistake in the beginning, but in the
end it becomes an experience of gain.
When one makes a mistake, there are two possible
kinds of responses. The first response is to become
regretful. One who is full of regret will become
disheartened after every mistake. He will be a victim of
stress. It is also possible that he may lose courage and be
unable to do anything else again.

This is the negative aspect of making a mistake. But

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