Finally – after all the clichés like ‘we learn more from our mistakes than from our successes’, there is a new study confirming it to be true! Researchers at a British university have discovered the brain mechanism that kicks in when it recognizes a previously unsuccessful pattern.
While many earlier reports had shown that learning improves after errors are made, this new study actually shows how the brain specifically reacts when you make a mistake.
Your brain, when signaled by previous experience of a negative outcome, will alert you to what’s happening and allow the potential for new positive opportunities of success.
Remember the time you used the screwdriver to open a can and it flew off, cutting open your finger? Well, your brain actually responds each time you pick up that screwdriver again.
Action – And, now you have it – valid evidence that your goofs, whoopsies, faux pas and gaffs have a purpose and even a positive end result!