WHY WE MAKE MISTAKES!!

We all tend to make mistakes again ‘n’ again from the things that we should have done to the things we shouldn’t have bought….hence, at every turn there is a mistake waiting to happen.

Remember the English text we all studied in college. It was captioned something like “The Day the Dam Broke”. It was all about a misunderstanding cause by confusion between ‘damn’ and ‘dam’. The conclusion is we act on what we perceive than what actually is!

Interestingly every mistake from a plane crash to a wrong meal order, all is attributed to human error and once the human error comes in to picture, all investigations into the probable cause are stopped! We forget to find the actual cause and blame everything on human error.

The real question is to figure out why it all happens? What triggers these mistakes. Do you know that right handed people always prefer the right hand route and vice versa? Do you know that while attempting Multiple-choice questions people usually have doubts about their first choice of answer and know the second option is the right one…yet they still go with the first choice as the preferred choice.  

It all happens because we have certain preconceived notions and perceptions and despite having doubts we tend to stick by them instead of altering our decisions. For centuries men (and women too!) have known to act on perceived things instead of investigating, this results in buying the wrong property, a wrong marriage decision, not taking action when required and the list goes on…

  

Being human we tend to make all the mistakes that are humanly possible. What is required is a realization that sometimes our mistakes are not our own but a combination of perceived thoughts by people around us…interestingly we all think in pretty much the same way J but let’s make effort in changing the perceptions…..our own and of others and make less mistakes…especially those that can be easily avoided!