My Favorite Mistake

Employment Experiences “I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences…I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.” – Queen Latifa. No individual manages to make it through life without making mistakes, falling short of expectations or failing. These negative moments are critical to understanding new concepts as well as important behaviors that are critical for leadership and development in life as well as in the business world. Many prominent leaders have had…

reinforcement, non-reinforcement, mistake-contingent encouragement, mistake-contingent technical instruction, punishment, punitive technical instruction, ignoring mistakes, and keeping control. Reinforcement is a positive, rewarding reaction to a good play or good effort (Weinberg, R. S., & Gould., D. 2011). In my observation, the coach had eight occurrences of reinforcement during the 60- minute class (21%). Mistake- contingent encouragement is encouragement after a mistake (Weinberg, R. S.,…

Have you ever made a mistake before? Of course you have! Everyone makes mistakes, but sometimes those errors can be big. Mistakes have caused the ancient city of Troy to be destroyed, and they tend to cause more damage than they do progress, additionally even when there is a big discovery made by mistake, the very same people who made the discovery have to keep working for years for it to actually be of any use to anybody. Troy. The grand city spoken of by the great poet Homer. Once complete,…

have flaws, luckily in our day of age our mistakes are not branded upon us. Hester Pynee, main character in the Scarlet Letter had to walk around with an A on her at all times because of one mistake she made. Hester had an affair and happened to get pregnant. Everyone then looked at her as if she had killed someone. She had to live with that mistake for the rest of her life and it was engraved on her headstone when she died. I have made many mistakes in my lifetime, and if I had to pick one to…

Human error is prevalent throughout all of life. Even when presented with the easiest of instructions, humans tend to mess it up. Though many of these mistakes come from failure or misunderstandings, there are other instances in which over-analysis comes into play. In Victor Hugo’s novel, Les Miserables, we are introduced to one such character. This man’s name was Jean Valjean. Although a former convict, Valjean was presented with an opportunity to change his life for the better. Very few…

In life, everyone makes mistakes, it’s just that some mistakes are bigger than others. Everyone has had this feeling at least one time in their life and in the story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury and the song “Apologize” by Timbaland, this feeling is the central idea of their piece. In “All Summer in a Day,” the children in the story dispirit a girl named Margot because they feel she is different than them and the kids end up devastating Margot. In the song “Apologize,” a character has…

At my practicum, there are several opportunities for a counselor to make a mistake. However, the mistakes can be easily corrected, and most of the time the person on the other end of the phone or computer will not be phased by a slip up. The forgiveness of the mess up does not make it okay, because as social workers we should strive to always provide the best services for our clients. When I think of decisions I have made that were flawed, I immediately think of a chat session I had last week…

consequence necessarily, but because of the mere idea that my integrity or moral beliefs would be questioned. I did not mean to imply that those ideas belonged to anyone besides who I cited, albeit incorrectly. I could not believe that I allowed myself to make such a simple but catastrophic mistake. How is it that I came to the decision that the reference should be cited it parenthesis when clearly it should have been quoted? How could I put myself and my team in this position? How would this…

family. With the use of textual evidence, it can be argued that it is the grandmas fault that her whole family, including herself, is killed by the Misfit and his gang. The grandma makes multiple mistakes throughout the story which can be directly related to the death of her family. The grandma 's first mistake happens before they even encounter the Misfit, and it is when she brings her pet…

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom,” (George S. Patton). We all face through hardships, failures, and cause mistakes once in a while because no one is perfect, but what makes us as success is overcoming the struggles we face. I have overcome many throughout my life, being born with a cleft palate, constantly moving, and my first year of college experience at Texas Tech University. Moving to the land of opportunity with no background or fluency of English at the age of 7,…