highwaystar101 said:
No it's not.
There are plenty of times I've made a mistake and it has taught me a valuable lesson. If a kid who's climbing a tree falls out of it and breaks their arm, the likelihood is that they wont want to make the same mistake again. They will be much more careful.
I have a big situation from my life where my mistake has made me a much better person.
At university in my first year for one of my modules I had a report to write, it was worth 10% of the module grade. In my naive foolishness I decided that 10% wasn't worth the effort and so I didn't do it. A few weeks later my lecturer asked me why I hadn't handed it in and I told him that I was busy and sacrificed one report and I chose his to sacrifice. Big mistake. He went apeshit and said that if that was my attitude I might as well leave university now because it was a fast way to achieve failure.
Do you think I ever skipped a report or missed a deadline again? No, of course I haven't.
Quite the opposite actually, I think from that moment on I made sure that I gave every piece of work my best effort and made sure that for the most part they were finished at least a week in advance. To be honest if I was let off for not handing that report in, I wouldn't have achieved such a good degree at university and I wouldn't be doing my Masters and I wouldn't be going on to do a PhD.
I learned from that mistake big time and I'm a better person for it.
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Conversely, there are plenty of mistakes I wish I haven't made too because I haven't particularly benefited from them in any way whatsoever. That was my point, you make some that you have learned from and you make some that you haven't. It's true.
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