ISSUE138 - "Only through mistakes can there be discovery or progress."
WORDS: 486 TIME: 01:30:00 DATE: 2010/7/23 16:44:47
I basically agree with this claim. It seems that all the discovery or progress must through even a number of mistakes. I concede that sometimes even close to every time someone could have discovery or progress through mistakes, but not all the time.
Sometimes mistakes cannot be avoided. Through mistakes we can get more experience told us which way is wrong. Furthermore, mistakes provide an opportunity to view from a new vantage point and try a different approach to discovery or progress.
I give three examples to illustrate this point. The first one is Jim Carrey who a famous comedian is ever won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor attributed to the film Man on the Moon. When Jim was a young comedian, he was booed on the stage often. Because of those failures he began to think the way of his performance and along with changing it to ingratiate audience. What's more, thinking from audience's view to find out his best performance way is the key to his success. Without those mistakes he could be a child star who cannot attain further achievement. In short, his failure contributes to his success.
Second example is Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the Microsoft's founders. Before them set up Microsoft, they had finished equipment called Traf-O-Data. In the rollout of their equipment, they hadn’t shown their equipment’s functions which result in their failure. After that they prepared as carefully as possible in the shows of their products. What’s more, "Babe" Ruth, a great baseball player, had hand while maintaining a home run and strike out record. That is the third example for my position. Mistakes play an important role in process of getting discovery.
However, not only through mistakes we can get discovery and process. Talent and inspiration also is a key to the discovery. For instance, Louis de Broglie who proposed the matter wave only by an inspiration that light can be wave-particle duality why not matter. Whether this idea can be summarized from mistakes or not? You may say it can be summarized from the mistakes by E Einstein and Huygens. But everyone at that time would say one of Einstein and Huygens is wrong; nobody would say they’re all wrong. Therefore, it’s the inspiration’s function leads to de Broglie’s right choice. This inspiration cannot be done from mistakes no matter how many mistakes you have. In some problems like the three mentioned above, mistakes affect well. But in some problems like de Broglie’s mistakes’ function is less or even to say none function.
In sum, on balance it is always that success needs mistakes. But in some special problems inspiration or other factors such as curiosity and caution is the key to discovery and process. Hence to get success we should draw lessons from mistakes and at the same time keeping our curiosity and caution and inspiring our brain have same importance to mistakes.
I basically agree with this claim. It seems that all the discovery or progress must be realised through even a number of mistakes. I concede that sometimes even close to every time (可以这样说吗?)someone could have a discovery or progress through mistakes, but not all the time.
Sometimes mistakes cannot be avoided. Through mistakes we can get more experience telling us which way is wrong. Furthermore, mistakes provide an opportunity to view from a new vantage point and try a different approach to discovery or progress.
I give three examples to illustrate this point. The first one is Jim Carrey, a famous comedian who has ever won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor attributed to the film Man on the Moon. When Jim was a young comedian, he was booed on the stage often. Because of those failures he began to think the way of his performance and along with changing it to ingratiate audience. What's more, thinking from audience's view to find out his best performance way is the key to his success. Without those mistakes he could be a child star who cannot attain further achievement. In short, his failure contributes to his success.
Second example is Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the Microsoft's founders. Before them set up Microsoft, they had finished equipment called Traf-O-Data. In the rollout of their equipment, they hadn’t shown their equipment’s functions which result in their failure. After that they prepared as carefully as possible in the shows of their products. What’s more, "Babe" Ruth, a great baseball player, had hand while maintaining a home run and strike out record. That is the third example for my position. Mistakes play an important role in process of getting discovery.
However, not only through mistakes we can get discovery and process. Talent and inspiration also is a key to the discovery. For instance, Louis de Broglie who proposed the matter wave only by an inspiration that light can be wave-particle duality why not matter. Whether this idea can be summarized from mistakes or not? You may say it can be summarized from the mistakes by E Einstein and Huygens. But everyone at that time would say one of Einstein and Huygens is wrong; nobody would say they’re all wrong. Therefore, it’s the inspiration’s function leads to de Broglie’s right choice. This inspiration cannot be done from mistakes no matter how many mistakes you have. In some problems like the three mentioned above, mistakes affect well. But in some problems like de Broglie’s mistakes’ function is less or even to say none function.
In sum, on balance it is always that success needs mistakes. But in some special problems inspiration or other factors such as curiosity and caution is the key to discovery and process. Hence to get success we should draw lessons from mistakes and at the same time keeping our curiosity and caution and inspiring our brain have same importance to mistakes.