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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior: I would love to believe in every word of this statement in its entirety. So simple and yet so profound. I think sometimes we all are caught up in the societal stigma of not making a mistake, or being a perfectionist so that no one including us points a finger towards us. But what good comes of it?

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior! Meaning

Perhaps the natural stock response for anything new or a change is a natural reluctance and sometimes a staunch denial. The question that I would like to point out is – Why? Why do we have to feel that reluctance?

Is it because it is unchartered waters for us? Or is it because it is something completely new and the results are unknown? Or does that look like a lot of hard work? The inferiority feeling is a made-up construct. At the core of it, we are comparing ourselves to someone else which starts us off on a bad footing. Instead, we have to focus on what we have in front of us. Our actions matter the most to create the results that we want.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes – this statement is a strong message for us to focus on getting things done. We have to learn to step out of our own mind, and its limitations and focus on the things that help us achieve our desires. The more time we spend on it, this gives us a better chance of getting what we want. Instead, if we are lost in this quagmire of thoughts of superiority and inferiority, it leaves us with little time to move forward.

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Making Mistakes

Well isn’t it the natural course of action? The more mistakes we make, the better we get at handling the mistake. Of course, I would refer to a situation of not repeating a mistake here. But nevertheless, aren’t the mistakes highly underappreciated? Sometimes don’t we think we don’t give enough importance to those?

All the while in society and within we have shunned the mistakes, avoided them, cursed them, ridiculed them and made fun of them. May it be mine or someone else’s. I have always made it a point to be a giant painful perfectionist and find ways to blame the mistake. I sometimes do question myself, is it simply because of the cultural tuning or is it because I am trying to feed in a void of inferiority by finding faults in others?

Making mistakes to become superior

We have all heard of the clichéd quote – “Failure is the stepping stone to success”, more times than I can recall. But how many times do we actually believe it? How many times do we actually appreciate something wrong around us and try to find ways to make it right?

We have always prided ourselves in finding what is wrong so that at that particular moment we feel superior and that’s the end of it. But is that the end? Or is it just a sad state of affairs we put ourselves into?

Maybe sometimes being superior is just to identify what the problem is, take a feedback from it and then find ways to work around, thus increasing our problem solving ability and tolerance level to make fresher and newer mistakes! ;)

Being inferior

Well, I would just say it is yet another state of mind. If we keep focusing on what is wrong and what the mistakes are, both in others and in ourselves, which is the exact thing we are going to find? Perhaps one way of getting out of the inferior feeling is trying to identify what is good in almost everything around us and what can be done better.

It is just a change in the phrase we use but can have a huge impact, cos don’t we often get what we are looking at? Is success or failure alike, isn’t it just a matter of focus?