About Mistakes...

I talk more about my mistakes than any others do because I tend to dwell on them. But that's just my way of dealing with them. But the worst thing about that is that people are going to start seeing you as a mistake-maker even though you probably make no more mistakes than anyone else does. You just talk about yours more. You probably even make less mistakes considering your compulsion to not make mistakes makes you that much more careful. A mistake would bother you more, though, if it's something you know about, or something you feel you should know about. It doesn't bother you so much when it's something you know nothing about and you know you know nothing about it.

Mistakes aren't necessarily an indication of stupidity. They're an indication of a lack of exposure to a specific thing whether it's because you were culturally, socially, or financially removed from it; or just because it doesn't interest you. I make a lot of mistakes when I'm nervous, not because I'm stupid I try to reassure myself, but simply because I'm too shy and I can't focus. And with each mistake I make I become more and more preoccupied with my mistakes until doing something right seems like something wrong.

Consider a really good speller who misspells a werd.

Elaine 06