Have Your Independence – Master Your Self
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We are here to learn how to master ourselves. There really is no way to learn any task or skill without errors. The process of learning has been defined as “successive approximation.” Watch children learning to walk. They literally learn to walk by falling down. Each time they fall, they adjust their balance and try again. Each failure creates a successive approximation.
. . . Finally they can walk.
Do not give up, if you are less than perfect. Pick yourself up quickly, learn from your experience and move on. Mistakes are always the product of hindsight. A mistake is anything you do that you later, upon reflection, wish you had done differently. This also applies to things you didn’t do that you later, upon reflection, wish you had done. It is in the striving that life has its meaning.
Be positive and optimistic and keep moving forward. The only failure in the process of self-mastery is the failure to get up and keep trying after a setback.
