Mistakes typically possess negative connotations. Lewis Thomas, author of Medusa and the Snail, vividly and passionately expresses how he understands mistakes, often underrated and brilliant, to be nothing less than the root of all greatness and overall brilliant methods of discovery or enlightenment. However, one’s interpretation of the meaning of “mistake” is a deciding factor; despite Lewis’ theory which may occur on a rare occasion, mistakes seem to lead to disasters more often than not. Upon hearing the word “mistake,” I generally associate it with accidents, risks, and peril; on the contrary, author Thomas Lewis depicts his perception of a mistake as a simple misunderstanding.
Mistakes like these are like bees, annoying and intimidating, but they can provide opportunity for one to grow, just as a bee pollinates a flower. To Lewis, humans are “coded for error” and are a pathway which prevents people from being confined to limited knowledge. As mentioned earlier,
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Chances are you won’t discover a new logarithm or whip out a new element, and the only thing you’ll get from that experience is a bad grade on your homework or the formation of a poisonous gas. My point being, most mistakes don’t offer the potential to redeem themselves or lead to anything better. The idea “trial and error” is all too common not because people repeatedly continue the mistaken error in hopes of discovering the next big thing, but rather because people are resilient and do not repeat that error again in hopes of correcting their mishap. In accordance with Lewis, mistakes are “lucky” for the reason that they allow growth in an
Many great scientists have found lost cities and great treasures, how? By making mistakes. Mistakes have led to great discoveries and rich people. Many errors lead to lost treasure, making new things, and you can learn from them; so you do not make the same mistake again. Therefore, mistakes are crucial part of a discovery.
Huge Lindgren writes about his personal experience as a writer in the struggle to find success through failure and self-doubt throughout his article “Be Wrong as Fast as You Can”. Lindgren brings up many of his own experiences that led to his acceptance of his place as a magazine article writer and editor, but more importantly he brings up many startling ideas that are scarily relatable. Ultimately, Hugo Lindgren explains that the only way to succeed in life is to struggle through failure and learn from one’s mistakes.
Medea is a tragedy written by acclaimed Greek playwright Euripides.fortunately, had the opportunity to view last night's performance. Euripides cleverly uncovers the reality of Ancient Greek society, shining a light on the treatment of women and the emotions and thoughts that provoked during their time in society. As they were voiceless, Euripides acted as a voice. The scene is set during a male- dominated society, Medea the protagonist challenges the views and chooses to ignore the normality of civilisation. Treated as an outsider her passion for revenge conquers the motherly instincts she possesses, provoking a deep hatred and sparking revenge towards her once loved family.
People may say that mistakes just hold scientists back and provide obstacles. John Denker says, “scientists worked to avoid mistakes.” He says that scientists did not just make one mistake that led to a big discovery, but they invented their products little by little, trying to make it perfect. Mistakes may hold you back sometimes,
Diamond, J. (1987). The worst mistake in the history of the human race. Discover, 8(5), 64-66.
The tragedy could have been his.” (Moore xi). I agree with his achievement, of how they accept
Everyone makes mistakes, yet even the smallest of mistakes can change the entire course of history given a time machine and a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Learn to cherish the life on this Earth, and don’t let poor choices dictate the future ahead. Making the right decision is key to success, and only we can choose what successes we want to
To most of society, medical errors reflect poorly on a doctor. Many accuse the physician of being negligent and incompetent in the event of a medical error, but the truth is they are simply human. The stigmatization of medical errors is a result of the high, almost god-like, expectations society has placed upon physicians. In his book Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science, Dr. Atul Gawande highlights several reasons doctors have trouble admitting their medical mistakes and why they shouldn’t.
In Stephen Jay Gould’s essay, “Some close encounters of a mental kind,” Gould discussed about how certainty can be both blessing and dangerous. According to Gould, certainty can be blessing because it can provide warmth, comfort and secure. However, it can also be a danger because it can trick our mind with false information of what we see and remember in our mind. Gould also talked about the three levels of possible error in direct visual observation: misperception, retention and retrieval. According to Gould, our human mind is the greatest miracle of nature and the wicked of all frauds and tricksters mixed. To support his argument and statements, he used an example of an experiment that Elizabeth Loftus, a professor from University of California Irvine, did to her students and a personal experience of his childhood trip to the Devils Tower. I agree with Gould that sight and memory do not provide certainty because what we remember is not always true, our mind can be tricky and trick us into believing what we see/hear is real due to the three potential error of visual observation. Certainty is unreliable and tricky.
A person's assumption that they are not infallible is not based on systematic calculation of his own mistakes; rather, it is based on certain facts that he has observed, which leads him to make certain predictions.
As the world turns around and around, our knowledge increases. Everyday that passes by is one lost to the overflow of information in our unending world. Soon, all that we will have left will be an innumerous amount of useless information. We might be understanding how our world works, but does it cost us? As we focus on the way our world works, we lose contact with the things that matter the most. We start focusing on how to survive in our world that we forget to live it. In literary works, The Rememberer and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, both authors demonstrate the consequences of losing focus on what truly matters in life. Each main character follows a simply devolution, where they lose focus in life and become an unintelligent creature; leading society to wonder is there a cure for our over thinking.
Once upon a time, a long time ago, there lived a beautiful girl named Medusa. Medusa lived in Athens, Greece. Although there were many pretty girls in the city, Medusa was labeled the most amazingly dressed and structured.
Who was the hero who killed Medusa? The hero who killed Medusa was Perseus. He killed the Gorgon who could turn mortals to stone with a look, he was set out to sea in a wooden box as a kid, and saved the princess Andromeda. He was a hero who was very deadly, used his power for good, and was a victim of unfortunate events.
Everyone, at some point in their life, has made a mistake. Sometimes we get lucky and only falter a little, making it through the problem relatively intact. Other times, we mess up a lot and have to fix what was damaged over a long period of time. However, the same is true for most, if not all cases—those who make the mistake learn from it. Often times, our failures teach us valuable lessons that we only gained because of the experience we gathered after messing up. I have personally achieved a wealth of knowledge and experience just from all of my own little mishaps, and a few major ones.
“Everything that enters the senses needs to be interpreted through the brain -- and these interpretations occasionally go wrong,” he said.