Fear of Mistakes
Though it is true that all of us learn something from
the experience of others, some more, some less, there is still much that all of
us have to learn from our own experience. In the course of gaining this
experience we must make mistakes; no one is perfect, but it is practice that
makes them so. All arts are to be learnt by our practising them ourselves. A
child will never learn to walk if he is not allowed to walk. We should not have
an anxiety of making mistakes; those who do so will never learn anything. Students
who are trying to learn English language very often slow down their progress by
having an undue fear of making mistakes. They do not speak in that language for
fear they may make mistakes, and people will laugh at them, and hence they
never learn to speak that language. They should remember that there is no shame
in making mistakes; by making mistakes they will learn to speak correctly. They
should remember that if they had this credulous of committing mistakes when
they were children, they would not have learnt to speak their mother tongue
even. If as a child one was not afraid of making mistakes, what reason is there
that one should do so now? A person learning English language is like a child learning
his mother tongue, both are beginners.
Mistakes
increase your experience; and experience decreases your mistakes.