No wonder they say that smart people learn from their mistakes, and wise people learn from strangers. Each of us at least once thought about how to avoid mistakes. But, if you think about it, the methods that allow you not to make mistakes are not so complicated. In order to learn to avoid mistakes, you need to do a series of actions.
Instruction manual
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Analyze your mistakes already made. Surely there are areas where you are so little mistaken. But there are problems that recur, and you step on the same rake again and again. It is these areas that need to be studied in more detail in order to reduce the likelihood of errors in the future.
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Examine other people's behavior in situations in which you are most often mistaken. Understand situations thoroughly: what leads to success, what leads to failure. Psychologists know that, for example, many movie and show business stars in childhood loved reading biographies of celebrities. And then, when they grew up, they were able to realize some of the successful strategies for the behavior of their idols in life. They were also able to avoid standard mistakes on the path to fame, and thereby gained popularity. Some methods of psychotherapy involve copying other people's successful strategies. But you can, even without the help of a psychologist, develop the ability to notice the ways of avoiding mistakes and apply them later in your life. Observe people, watch films on problems close to you, read books, analyze and "wind up."
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When making decisions, learn to trust yourself more than others. Often fussiness leading to erroneous actions is generated by the illusion that everyone cares about us. Doubtful people think that society is only busy with this in order to condemn them for potentially incorrect behavior. They begin to please everyone and everyone, and then find themselves at a trough. A simple exercise from behavioral psychology helps here: when going into the hall, office, metro and other public places, each time count how many people from among those who are watching you. After several calculations, you will see that there are almost none. Sometimes for one hundred people in the subway car there may be one or the other who will slip through you with a lazy look and immediately forget about you. Having trained on strangers, you can more easily assess the potential condemnation of a closer circle of acquaintances - friends, colleagues or relatives. And be surprised how insignificant it is. And this is a big step towards a more confident and relaxed behavior that will help you avoid a lot of mistakes.