Actually it should be "Why doing something wrong makes you more intelligent!"
Today a friend of mine called me to give me some feedback about the last Supercool Class I gave. He is a very straight forward type of person ( which I love about him) and so he started right with his "20-things-I-didn´t- liked- in- your- class list :-).
Most of the things on his list where already on my own list so I agreed almost on every point with him. But after the call I started to think about his way at looking at my mistakes. He knows me well so he knew what I´m able to do and wondered why I was making some decisions that had a bad effect on my performance as a speaker.
Let´s look at some critical decisions I made about my Supercool Class:
- Choosing the internet as a medium
- Choosing english as language
- Start giving classes without having much practice
Well if you ask me it´s all about learning. I have some impact as a life speaker when the audience is sitting right in front of me( in my native language - german). I did this for quite a long time and had much fun doing it.
But what´s the point in choosing a way of looking good and doing something you already mastered? If you ask me it´s the way to stuck in your current status (another way of saying "stay dumb") and not learn much anymore.
Although I have preached a thousand times that you got to go for it and make alot of mistakes to grow as a personality it seems like most people still wonder why I walk the talk :-)
People who know me well and know about my straights wonder why I often choose to look dumber then I am (if you ask me I still try to look smart too much). I do this because I want to learn faster and grow faster then I normally would.
And that´s one of my biggest success secrets. It´s making alot of mistakes and making them fast without hesitation. And then learn as much as possible from the results.
Think about it - success doesn´t have new valuable information for you ( "just" good feelings)
BUT failure has tons of information for us if we just open our eyes, ears and hearts to understand the lessons ( first - always close your ego before opening your sins ).
So you need to change your relationship to failure in order to learn faster. Not by forcing you to change but by learning to have fun producing failure. It´s what I call the Making Mistakes Mastery
Have fun!
Steli Efti, Education Revolutionary
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