How do you deal with your mistakes?

One of the major characteristics that I analyzed about people when I interact with them is how do they deal with their mistakes, what position do they take when they make a mistake. This is very important for me because it tells me a lot about their personality, about how good they know themselves, how they assume their responsibilities and how they deal with their mistakes, also their response to their mistakes let me know what answers I should expect from them in a difficult situation.

Reading one of Robert Kiyosaki’s books, Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing, I found that he described perfectly how people deal with their mistakes. He listed 5 types of wrong attitudes that people assume when they make mistakes, which I want to share and discuss with you, hoping that you can find what your attitude about mistakes is, and find by yourself how you could change it; hopefully you will have a better knowledge about yourself and use it to in your pursuit of your dreams.

So, here are the five types of roles people generally assume when they make a mistake:

1. People who lie: these people tend to deny what they did, they prefer to say that they didn’t made a mistake than assuming their responsibility, they say things like, “No I didn’t do it” or “No I wasn’t”, or “I don’t know what happened”. It is a very coward attitude. You cannot be afraid of making mistakes.

2.  People who blame others: these people never assume their mistakes as their own, they always like to blame others and they never see what they did. This is one of the worst attitudes you can assume when making a mistake, there is millions of people in the world blaming others for their failures, when most of the time they are completely responsible for their acts. These people blame their wife, husband, kids, workers or their boss for what are their failures and incompetence. They say things like “I cannot pursuit my dreams because of my kids, my salary, my social status, etc.”

3. People who justify their mistakes: they use phrases like “I do not have a good education, then I cannot go further” or “I would have realized my dreams if I would have what other people have” or “anyway, I didn’t want to have that”. They always justified their laziness and mediocrity with this type of phrases.

4. People who quit: these people always prefer to quit than to fight, they don’t want to take responsibilities and say things like: “I told you this wasn’t going to work” or “this is very difficult and is not worth, I’ll do something easier” or “why am I doing this, I do not need to bother.

5. People who deny reality: they tend to assume that nothing ever happened; they prefer to say “there is nothing wrong, everything is going well”.

There is a sixth attitude that people assumed and is when they take responsibility of their mistakes and are willing to learn from it. I’m glad if you are one of those, in my case, I have found myself blaming others for a lot of things that happened in my life, especially in my past, and only when I have realized that I was making mistakes I started to learn from those experiences, and that have made me move forward in an incredible way; now I have a lot more control of myself and know how to react better when I make a mistake. Remember, there is nothing wrong about making mistakes, is the attitude you assume after you make a mistake that can take you further in the pursuit of your dreams, or can keep you living a life full of failures.

Now you have the chance to get to know yourself better, check if you assume one of the attitudes listed here after making a mistake and start to change it know, knowing yourself is the first step to pursuit your dreams, being in control of yourself gives you a greatest tool to go further in life and find what you are looking for!