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Let’s talk about Mistakes

Making mistake means being wrong about something, such as a wrong answer to a question. Mistakes are often made, which is normal, but we need to figure out how to notice them. However, being wrong doesn’t mean you can just let it flow. We have to notice them quickly and try to fix and figure out what went wrong, in order to improve our scores when receiving a similar inquiry. Recent experiments show that children who learn and notice their mistakes often get better grades. In the experiments, 89 children out of 100 children had been fixing their mistakes and over 90 percent of them had gotten a much better grades after this. The others’ grades started decreasing. Hans Schroder, a physiologist, let some children play a game of capturing animals in order to test their mindset. As they played, an electrode recorded their brain activity. Shroder found out that each response in the children's brains was about 150 milliseconds. This shows that children’s brains can respond to mistakes quite easily. Mistakes are made easily, and the solution to them is commonly right under our very noses. All these studies prove that people can respond and notice mistakes, it depends if they want or not. When you fix your mistakes, you can improve your academic values as well as your attitude.


When we make a mistake, it is most likely that one would try to find the solution, and this gives people the intention of working harder. When people work hard, they focus harder too which helps them learn to correct their mistakes. Children, however, have less sense of controlling time, and it is common to see them not focusing and being distracted. When they notice a mistake in their work, they rarely will check to see what is wrong. Hans Schroder saw that a game played by children gives them a response of 150 milliseconds and a longer period of time playing the game, a brain response of 500 milliseconds. During this experiment, the children played a game that they had to round up animals from the zoo by clicking the space key. They had to avoid the orangutans, in order to round up the animals. When they click the orangutan, it is a mistake and the brain quickly starts to work and focus on not doing it again. Schroder, after examining the results, says this shows the children’s brains paying attention to mistakes. A physiologist named Allison Master quotes: “When we face your mistakes and are ready to learn from them, then you can get better over time. But if we run away from your mistakes and try to ignore them, we’ll never improve.” This quote from her shows that facing and working hard to learn from your mistakes can improve you over time, but quitting or losing focus will never get us to improve. Working hard to improve is an important stage during a mistake is made.


When we make a mistake, one can not just push it away and forget it. When we do this, one might never remember the mistake you have made, and will never improve like this. Improving our mistakes is all controlled by our brain and it’s mindset. Mistakes can not be ignored, because once we do this there will be harder difficulties awaiting us that we cannot solve just because of us skipping a mistake. Mistakes are often noticeable when focused, and we must work hard to spot them and then fix them thoroughly. In an experiment with 50 kids and their progress, 17 children had fixed and noticed their mistakes after a heavy exam. The other 33 children did not do so. After another similar test was given, it w as shown that 96 percent of the 17 children who revised their mistakes had improved, based on the results of their exam. The children who did not revise had a result of 23 percent of children improving. Sometimes, we need to work hard to achieve something that will satisfy us. Even if it is painful to do, things can not always be easy so we must face it. Skipping a mistake can lead to even more mistakes made in the future.


Our different reactions to mistakes is based on our different types of mindset. This is “fixed” mindset, meaning a mindset that people tend to believe they are born with a certain level of intelligence, not changing throughout their lives. The second mindset is people with a “growth” mindset, meaning that they can get smarter through hard work. Often, scientists use these two classifications to decide whether people work hard through their mistakes or not. Some people use these to describe children that notice and fix their mistakes or not. However, mistakes can prove that we are learning, and shows what we need to work on. Our brain mindsets, which tell us whether we have a fixed or growth mindset, there are many processes in which they fertilise the mistake and try to fix them. This process can show that our brain is working hard to get us the mindset you own, and show it to you that we can fix our mistakes. Mistakes are never impossible to make, as nobody is perfect. However, our growth mindset or fixed mindset can both decide what process we are going to think or go through once we make a mistake. Different growth mindsets can show our opinion of a solution to a mistake.


We must learn to work hard and never run away from them in order to succeed and to get better over time. Winners never quit, and quitters never win, so if we want to get better at something you are stuck on, we must try again and again and face them bravely. Fixing mistakes is not something that is easy, but once we go through this process you will find everything has become smooth and easy. Fixing our mistakes is the most important process when we make a mistake. Never forget about what we have done wrong, when we check or notice it later on we might be able to understand it better than before. Mistakes are a step further to success, and this might not sound right. However, when we notice and learn from your mistakes, it may boost our academic and learning skills much better, and we might even get something we really want. Mistakes can be useful in learning the way to solve or fix the mistake throughout it. We need to work hard to solve a difficult situation, but mistakes must be made throughout our lives and we should use this chance to learn from them.


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