¶ Life is a Sumtotal of Mistakes (1)
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Life is a Sumtotal of Mistakes:
"Man-- born naked, helpless, and ignorant-- but with innate drives to insure procreating and refueling… He just makes mistakes all the time, learning only by making mistakes. The billions of humans who have lived must have made septillions of mistakes. Since these mistakes must have given humans such an inferiority complex, nature had to offset this tendency by a chromosomically-induced pride, ego, and self-deceiving capability.
"When people are surprised by some new development, they tend to say, ‘I knew it all the time!’ in a self-congratulatory way. So parents have brought up their children with the idea that they should make no mistakes, they should be frozen into their customs. It is this Emperor’s-clothes-like tradition which universally assumes that only fools make mistakes; it is this kind of tradition that requires such a revolutionary breakthrough.
"Mistakes have a servomechanism function in life. Clearly when you acknowledge mistakes you do recover from them. It is like
