A new way to think about mistakes will both help you stop making them, and change the way you feel about them.
When LiveJournal user celandine13 made mistakes during piano practice, her teacher would help her debug the error of her ways:
He never seem to judge me for my mistakes. Instead, he'd try to fix them with me: repeating a three-note phrase, differently each time, trying to get me to unlearn a hand position or habitual movement pattern that was systematically sending my fingers to wrong notes.
What she unpacks from that finding--that wrong notes have a discrete cause, rather than from being bad at piano--has impacts for anyone who wants to improve their skills or help someone to improve theirs.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Debug Yourself: Rethinking Mistakes And How They Affect Your Work | Fast Company
