Errare Humanum Est

You are a human being, a living process that does many things over the course of a lifetime. Humans are inclined to myopically focus on their errors and missteps missing the forest from the trees. Live in the present and learn from the past so you do not repeat missteps in the future. Do not rate, evaluate, score, or judge your dynamic self, personhood, essence, and worth. Do rate, evaluate, score, and judge what you do in the context of your goals. Ask questions about what you did and what assumptions you were operating under at the time of your misstep so you learn from your mistakes. You learn this way and bad feelings are contained to what you did or failed to do but you do not feel bad about you the person who did the mistake. Failing bad about you the person NEVER helps. Feel bad only about what you did or failed to do. We all do idiotic things we regret. No one is an idiot unless they wrongly and invalidly define their dynamic “self” as an idiot. The Romans used to say “Errare Humanum Est.” Translation “To err is human”. 

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