Point 87

Learning From Your Mistakes

• In 2001, Dimitri van der Linden conducted research dealing with computers and electronic devices and how people choose to learn from them. He proposed an idea.
• All errors have consequences.
• But what exactly is the outcome?

Consequences

• Good
• Errors with good or positive consequences may not produce a desired result, but provide useful
• information.
• Bad
• Errors with a negative consequence result in a dead end, or a set back to the starting point.