Do you make Mistake(s)?

Did you make mistake(s)?

I make mistakes. I make them every day — some knowingly and some unknowingly.

Some of them are so trivial that we may ot even resgiter them as mistake. For example

Dialled a wrong number
Clicked a wrong item while purchasing online

Some of them are grave. For example

Added one extra zero while making a payment
Took a worng turn while driving and hit an object or a person

Mistakes are painful when they happen,
but years later a collection of mistakes
is what is called experience.

Dennis Waitley

A motivational Speaker

A historical example of the mistake physicians were doing before 1847 was an act of “not washing their hands” while treating their patients. This was being done unknowingly by them. Today we know it was a mistake, thanks to Ignaz Semmelweis.
In 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis famously exhorted his fellow physicians to wash their hands before delivering babies. He realized they must have acquired some kind of “morbid poison” on their hands from doing autopsies on women who had died of childbed fever, then transferred the poison to women in labor. (He didn’t know the exact mechanism, but he had the right idea.) Semmelweis ordered his own medical students to wash their hands in a chlorine antiseptic solution, and death rates from childbed fever dropped rapidly thereafter. Yet his colleagues refused to accept Semmelweis’s concrete evidence, the lower death rate among his own patients.

Why didn’t they embrace Semmelweis’s discovery immediately, thanking him effusively for finding the reason for so many unnecessary deaths? This behaviour is because of “Cognitive Dissonance” and they are justified by maintaining or strengthening the existing belief through “confirmation bias”

I will write on these in some of my blogs later.

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes
but in never making the same one a second time.”

George Bernard Shaw

Did you make mistake(s)?

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