!rant
Our biggest mistakes are the ones we never committed 😔😔

Pun intended?

Murder?

I guess this is building off the:
"You grow by making mistakes".

So for every mistake you haven't committed, you haven't grown.

However here's an interesting twist. If it's a mistake to not make mistakes, then if you don't make a mistake, then you've made a mistake. If you make a mistake, then you've made a mistake by not making the mistake of not making a mistake, which then leads into the first. Paradox?

What I would've said is:
"Our biggest mistakes are the ones we never acknowledged".

Cool quote though!

@encore nope. No pun intended. But I see where you headed.

Well, the thought behind writing this quote was that sometimes we stop ourselves from doing things which we think might be a mistake. However there is no way to know unless you do that thing. Nice comment though. Food for thought. @coolq

Sorry. Didn't get you 😅 @Ashkin

@coolq What is a mistake in the first place? Isn't it just some outcome of our actions we mark as mistake? Which depends on our society we live in?

If a mistake is for example just an unexpected outcome from our actions contradicting our expectations, wouldn't a mistake simply add value and information to our model of the world. Never making any mistakes would then mean no update/growth of our model. Never. So basically no progress and with that no life at all.

So a mistake under common definition would be to not make mistakes under this definition.

Disagree. I'm pretty sure I've pushed some really big mistakes.

Good for you 😀 @byte-me

@justwellbrock
I disagree with the "mistakes are unexpected outcomes" part.

A mistake, by definition is "An act or judgement that is misguided or wrong". Another word for it is "error", and I'm sure we're all familiar with what that means.

The interesting part of your post is where you say that mistakes are mistakes because the society we live in calls it a mistake. And you'd be correct. But many things, not just mistakes are guided by that same logic. We have all agreed that one fifty dollar note is worth fifty dollars, even though the material it is printed on is often worth much less than 50$. We have all just agreed that it represents 50$.

So yes, what we call a mistake is determined by what society you live in.

Based on my own definition of a mistake, saying that if we never made mistakes that the world would never grow just isn't true. If we never made mistakes, everything would just work. We grow from our mistakes because we now know how to prevent it from happening again.

aslong as you dont push them