Are mistakes really a bad thing or rather something that’s helpful? In medusa and the snail, a book by Lewis Thomas, he claims that mistakes are the base of human thought and that trial and error is actually a good thing not a bad thing. In the article he says, “ We learn, as they say, by “trial and error.” (Line 10) Learning is the base of human curiosity and this human curiosity got us to the technology and information that we have today. None of that would've happened if we didn't have mistakes first. Mistakes help society grow as a whole not only intellectually, but in technological advances as well.
Think about the worlds richest 1% of people, their businesses weren't perfected overnight. These people had to go through error after error
Think about the worlds richest 1% of people, their businesses weren't perfected overnight. These people had to go through error after error