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Why YouShould Celebrate Your Mistakes

When youmake a mistake, big or small, cherish (珍视) it like it’s the most precious thing in theworld. Because in some ways, it is.

Most ofus feel bad when we make mistakes, beat ourselves up about it, feel likefailures, get mad at ourselves.

Andthat’s only natural: most of us have been taught from a young age that mistakesare bad, that we should try to avoid mistakes. We’ve been scolded when we makemistakes—at home, school and work. Maybe not always, but probably enough timesto make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction.

Yetwithout mistakes, we could not learn or grow. If you think about it that way,mistakes should be cherished and celebrated for being one of the most amazingthings in the world: they make learning possible; they make growth andimprovement possible.

By trialand error—trying things, making mistakes, and learning from those mistakes—wehave figured out how to make electric light, to paint the ceiling of theSistine Chapel, to fly.

Mistakesmake walking possible for the smallest toddler, make speech possible, makeworks of genius possible.

Thinkabout how we learn: we don’t just consume information about something andinstantly know it or know how to do it. You don’t just read about painting, orwriting, or computer programming, or baking, or playing the piano, and know howto do them right away. Instead, you get information about something, fromreading or from another person or from observing usually … then you construct amodel in your mind … then you test it out by trying it in the real world … thenyou make mistakes … then you revise the model based on the results of yourreal-world experimentation … and repeat, making mistakes, learning from thosemistakes, until you’ve pretty much learned how to do something. That’s how welearn as babies and toddlers, and how we learn as adults. Mistakes are how welearn to do something new—because if you succeed at something, it’s probablysomething you already knew how to do. You haven’t really grown much from thatsuccess—at most it’s the last step on your journey, not the whole journey. Mostof the journey was made up of mistakes, if it’s a good journey.

So ifyou value learning, if you value growing and improving, then you should valuemistakes. They are amazing things that make a world of brilliance possible.

1.Why domost of us feel bad about making mistakes?

A.Because mistakes make us suffer a lot.

B.Because it’s a natural part in our life.

C.Because we’ve been taught so from a young age.

D.Because mistakes have ruined many people’s careers.

2.Accordingto the passage, what is the right attitude to mistakes?

A. Weshould try to avoid making mistakes.

B. Weshould owe great inventions mainly to mistakes.

C. Weshould treat mistakes as good chances to learn.

D. Weshould make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction.

3.Theunderlined word “toddler” in Paragraph Six probably means _______.

A. asmall child learning to walk           B.a kindergarten child learning to draw

C. aprimary pupil learning to read         D.a school teenager learning to write

4.We canlearn from the passage that _______.

A. mostof us can really grow from success

B.growing and improving are based on mistakes

C.mistakes are the most precious things in the world  

D. weread about something and know how to do it right away

试题答案

【答案】

1.C

2.C

3.A

4.B