[QUOTE=J.Barnes;51849375]I have applied this to my actual job and it has made my work noticeably easier than in the past. I even tell it to new hires when I have to get them trained up. Don't feel bad about making mistakes, don't feel embarrased. We are all fallable. We all fuck up. The trick is to learn from it, and in many cases how quickly you can recover from said fuck up, if and when you do.
I've got a long way to go in the social department however. But you know, baby steps and all that.[/QUOTE]
It depends on how big of a fuck up you get
Some fuck ups happens only once, then bye to your job
[QUOTE=shian;51849451]It depends on how big of a fuck up you get
Some fuck ups happens only once, then bye to your job[/QUOTE]
At my work, I'm astonished at the volume of it to be honest.
If it were a corporate environment, half the front of the house would be out on their asses, not counting the shit that goes on in the kitchen. I try to hammer into new people to take their time, read the menu, food cost etc. but when you're dealing with functional alcoholics & drug addicts theres only so much you can do.
BE CONFIDENT!
[QUOTE=WhyNott;51848865]Sorry, but thats just plain out not true. You learn way more from your successes then from your mistakes. When you make a mistake, at best you may learn how to not do something. When you do something right, you learn how to do it. Mistakes are a resource drain, and they can have consequences that can't be easily fixed (or like, at all). All this Edison bullshit about how he "invented a 1000 ways not to construct a lightbulb" is just pure feelgood propaganda and should not be taken seriously.[/QUOTE]
Success can lead to complacency. Just because something was a success doesn't mean it's the best way to do something, but since you're happy with the result you don't challenge it or give it a second thought. Mistakes make you rethink what went right, what went wrong, and what needs to change.
I'm not going to say that all mistakes teach you more than successes, but I feel like there's generally more potential to grow from mistakes than successes.
[QUOTE=WhyNott;51849027]My argument is that while we should learn from oir mistakes if we do end up making them, we should rely more on analizing our successes in finding out what is the correct course of a action. If you make a bad painting it might be beneficial to see what you did wrong, but it will always be more beneficial if you make a good painting somehow and then see what you did right because then you can just do it again to end up with another nice painting. (This is just an example, I know nothing about painting.) Of course, you will probably fail several times before you succeed for the first time, but the profit from doing so in terms of experience for future attempts will be higher then from those failrules.[/QUOTE]
When you say it like that, I just think of the current video game and movie industry. They all try to copy each other when one is successful and it leads to a tiring circle of the same thing. Where as Adult Swim has been growing and growing because even though they find success in a certain type of show, they acknowledge it for what it is and try to find the next new success.
I see what you're saying though and I don't think you're wrong. It's just when people take that mentality way too literally. In the end, nothing boosts confidence like a success. Not to mention, a success usually leads to the next step of innovation that would've never been achieved without it.
[QUOTE=Saxon;51847284]This explains why when I'm sleep deprived I'm more confident
Too tired to give a shit I guess[/QUOTE]
This is also the case for me after a physically demanding workout, I can talk more freely and I have less of a filter on what I say to people, it's like the exhaustion blocks out whatever causes social anxiety.
I can only be confident with alcohol, it sucks.
[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;51846669]It's easier said than done[/QUOTE]
and even easier than that to do nothing.
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