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Screaming and Kicking

Admitting Mistakes Is Never Easy

October 8, 2005 12:04:08 PM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums
On an 18-hour flight where you choose to go economy and you're between snoozing and waking up interspersed with glimpses of another passenger's socked feet in the empty seat beside you, you decide to make the best of the moment by grabbing those earphones and finally watching the in-flight movie rerun( which are the fare, by today's budget-strapped airlines). I mean, so what if it's a movie titled "Kicking and Screaming" starring Will Ferrer and Robert Duvall ? You've been roused from your sleep , you've had it with all the food and drinks that've been shoveled down your throat and the laptop battery just fizzled out. Going out for a walk and a bit of fresh air at 37,000 feet wasn't my idea of fun either.

Anyway, it was a Little League neighborhood baseball game scenario where Will and Robert were at odds as coaches. Will was all over the place with his antics in playing dirty to win and I reached the part when he 'fessed up and told his team, " Listen guys, I screwed up.." In a sudden burst of Epiphany, Will espouses the value of team spirit and derides "winning" over "how you play the game".

Maybe it was getting roused from sleep and immediately witnessing that scene that made the point of admitting mistakes register in my mind. We've had a lot of that lately. Imagine pouring billions into the shuttle space program only to admit in the end that it was a mistakeLink
And , of course, there was this remarkable admission Link , in a Presidential sort of way from a man not used to revealing his weaknesses. Speaking of Presidents, we also have Link as another example. Of, course, a classic one without the need for apology or change in the course of actionLink . We also have people who face up to mistakes involving tragic consequences. Link Oh, and an unexpected recent rant that caught my attention after I finished the article.Link


Whether it be fear of political consequences, the social fallout, or just plain embarrassment, facing the truth of one's mistake and owning up to it has never been easy. Yes, we do "scream and kick" before finally concluding the inevitable. How about you, dear readers at JU? How many life-learning monumental screw-ups do you know of that had been/ could've been/ would've been saved by a simple admission ?


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Reply #1 October 8, 2005 12:46:33 PM
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I've been edited, with regards to presenting the other links. But whattheheck. The geist is there.
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Reply #2 October 8, 2005 12:48:54 PM
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okay, the admin edit got corrected or just maybe got delayed. whatever.
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Reply #3 October 8, 2005 9:42:17 PM
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Most the huge mistakes I have made in life [there has been many, too many to regale you with} could have been prevented by a simple admission, "i do not know" or "this is just so wrong" or What the heck am I doing" But being human< i just had to learn from my mistakes.

Now I just make the admission and move on.
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Reply #4 October 9, 2005 9:34:32 AM
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"Now I just make the admission and move on." - MM

Exactly my point. The first hard step is really admitting that a mistake, no matter how tragic, has been made. Once, we get over that, we can move on. The problem is,for many people, that first hard step seems insurmountable, so they end up justifying the unjustifiable and rationalizing the first foolish steps they made. They can't move on.
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Reply #5 October 10, 2005 12:43:28 AM
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For the readers who are unable to be connected to link No. 2 (which is taken from an NPR news on Pres. Bush taking the Blame for the Katrina disaster) and Link No.4 (which is a Homeland Security newssite which documented the absence of WMDs in Iraq as an intelligence failure). Both sites are accessible thru Google, but for some unexplainable reason could not be linked to this post using the same URLs
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Reply #6 October 13, 2005 2:18:05 PM
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It's never easy for someone to admit they are wrong. Swallowing one's pride and facing up to it is always best of course. There's a saying "Pride comes before a fall". Too many times people won't admit wrong doing because they're too proud. Sometimes all it takes to change the outcome are two words, "I'm sorry".
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Reply #7 October 18, 2005 9:45:22 PM
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"I'm sorry". - foreverserenity

two words which are the most difficult to say, if you believe you're super-human. For ordinary humans, like most of us, after a period of reflection, it comes out naturally.
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