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Make Your Mistake a Mistake Plus

there is also a positive aspect of a mistake. That is, it
encourages you to engage in introspection and self-
reassessment. When you do this, your mistake will turn
into a mistake plus. A mistake plus is bound to activate
your mind. It will lead to brainstorming. In return, it
will emerge as a natural gift for you. It will increase your
creativity and produce a thinking process that may lead
to the capacity for better re-appraisal of yourself and an
increased ability to analyze things. 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.
Nature’s greatest gift to man is his mind. The mind is
the greatest miracle of nature. The German psychologist
Alfred Adler observed: “One of the wonder-filled
characteristics of human beings is their power to turn a
minus into plus.” Now there is the question of how this
miracle may come about? The answer is that if a person
makes a mistake and saves himself from being a victim
of negative thinking, then by nature a miraculous event
occurs. That is, by the law of nature a rethinking process
is developed in him. He analyzes what happened with
him and tries to understand where he went wrong. He
thinks how he may achieve at the second attempt what
he could not at the first attempt. In this way a new
process of positive thinking is initiated in the mind of
this person, which becomes a means for his intellectual
development. Thus, this process turns his mistake into
a mistake plus.

A mistake is an error or fault resulting from poor
judgment. If you have a positive mind, your mistake will

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