Stupid Mistakes Should NOT Bother Us

Stupid Mistakes Should NOT Bother Us

Stupid Mistakes Should NOT Bother Us or should we be?  We all make stupid MISTAKES from time to time.  I myself, I committed HUGE stupid ones BUT where did I end up?  NOT deep inside the trenches.  NOT locked and stagnating in the drainage.  NOT even floating in the waters, rudderless with NO DIRECTION📗📙📘

History itself is replete with stupid MISTAKES.  Info tells us that the Tower of Pisa has been leaning even before construction was finished.  It is also claimed that the U.S. NASA taped over the original recordings of the moon landing.  And operatives of the disgraced late U.S. President Richard Nixon were caught 'red-handed' breaking into a Watergate Office, setting off the worst political scandal in U.S. history.  Recently, apparently, the French government spent $15 Billion on a fleet of new trains only to discover they were too wide for the 1,300 station platforms📌📌📌

We readily recognize these mistakes as really stupid ones and epic blunders at that.  On a more mundane level, we invest in GET-RICH quick schemes, we drive too fast, and posts on make those posts on social media, which we later regret.  BUT what exactly drives our perception of these actions as stupid MISTAKES as opposed to plain and sheer bad luck❔❔❔

So, WHAT makes our MISTAKES really stupid ones?  Is it their seeming mindlessness?  OR is it the severity of consequences?  OR is it the responsibility of the people involved?  Heard of a thief who burglarized a house and got the TV, only to come back to get the remote?  OR burglars who intended to steal mobile phones BUT instead ended up stealing GPS tracking devices that were turned ON and gave police their exact location😖😖😖

Many research studies were initiated to analyze all these stupid MISTAKES and there was one study where they sampled university students WHO rated each story on the responsibility of the people involved, the influence of the situation, the seriousness of the consequences, amongst others.  The studies showed three varieties of stupid MISTAKES.  The first is WHEN a person's confidence outstrips their skill.  Experts concluded that people falling in this first type fail to see the FLAWS in their thinking or the answers they lack.  It's like WHEN we think we are at our BEST is sometimes WHEN we are at our worst.  The second type are those stupid MISTAKES caused by impulsive acts.  Former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner falls into this type when he sent lewd text and pictures of himself to women he met in Facebook.  The last type of stupid MISTAKES involves LAPSES of ATTENTION.  Subjects falling under this type are deemed LEAST STUPID.  Our takeaway?  We are all prone to overestimating our abilities, to make impulsive decisions and to LAPSES of ATTENTION.  Yes we're still human but hey dude, can we endeavor to commit less stupid MISTAKES, PLEASE❗❗❗