If you constantly think about how not to lose face, it will be difficult for you to admit your mistakes. However, people around? able to admit mistakes? arouse more respect than those who pretend that nothing is happening. Ultimately, this ability directly affects the person’s reputation, as well as his relationship with people.
Pay attention to your feelings.
Having made a mistake, evaluate your feelings, pay attention to how you behave. If you are prone to excessive self-criticism, you may be scared for the consequences of your mistakes, you may want to take the blame away from you and lay it on someone else. It must be remembered that such behavior can bring much more problems than if you openly admitted your wrong.
To determine if you have a tendency to justify yourself every time, pay attention to whether you are exaggerating the fatality of your mistakes, or whether you are humiliating yourself for your inability to act correctly. Check if you stop believing in your abilities and do not perceive your past mistakes as a lesson. If you notice this behavior, adjust it.
Do not reproach yourself for your mistakes. A variety of mistakes (small misses or major omissions) on the way to the goal are almost inevitable.
Mistakes repeated
Remember that errors are an integral part of any process. Even if you have learned the lessons from previous mistakes well, they will still be repeated from time to time. Mistakes only show a person what exactly he is doing wrong, they give him the opportunity to learn and gain new knowledge and skills.
Remember that many great inventions were made after a long series of various mistakes.
Focus on the causes of errors
Instead of provoking a whole series of negative emotions, think about what could have caused your mistakes. Perhaps you were too tired, hungry, wanting to please someone or showing excessive perseverance. Concentrate on the causes of your mistakes and not on self-abasement, say to yourself, for example: "In the future I will make decisions only by making sure that I have the necessary information" or "In the future I will not make decisions if I feel tired."
Do not look back
A constant return to past mistakes plunges a person into negative thoughts. Analysis and recognition of past mistakes is necessary, learn from them, but never return to the experiences that they cause. The past cannot be changed.